Empowering Workers to Succeed

Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-CA), the senior Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, today harshly criticized Democrats’ $825 billion stimulus package, arguing that it fails to create jobs and provide necessary tax relief to working families and small businesses. Instead, McKeon noted, the bill is little more than a bloated government spending package cobbled together in the... Read more »

Later today, the U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on a pair of bills that will dramatically increase the number and cost of pay discrimination lawsuits filed against American businesses, including small businesses. These bills—H.R. 11, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and H.R. 12, the Paycheck Fairness Act—together will make it easier for trial lawyers to bring costly lawsuits by... Read more »

Discrimination in the workplace is wrong. Paying women lower wages for the same work is wrong. It’s also illegal. Congress enacted protections to ensure equal pay for equal work in 1963, when the Equal Pay Act was added to the Fair Labor Standards Act. Congress acted again to protect women and all Americans from workplace discrimination with enactment of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. Together... Read more »

I rise in opposition to this ill-considered and over-reaching legislation. Proponents of this bill claim it simply reverses a May 29, 2007 U.S. Supreme Court decision and clarifies congressional opposition to wage discrimination. In reality, however, this bill will set into motion a series of unintended consequences that will ripple through the economy and plague workers, small businesses, and the... Read more »

It’s been nearly two years since Democrats in Congress first voted to take the secret ballot from workers. On March 1, 2007, Democrats approved the deceptively named Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that would actually prevent workers from freely and privately choosing whether or not to join a union through a secret ballot election. As we approach the anniversary of this undemocratic moment in his... Read more »

An illuminating editorial appearing in today’s edition of Investor’s Business Daily pulls back the curtain on the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act, exposing the legislation as a payback to organized labor that would disenfranchise millions of American workers. "Despite its noble-sounding name, the legislation won't expand freedom. The bill could be more accurately called the card check act, for i... Read more »