With Members of Congress at home in their congressional districts this week, small business owners, local manufacturers, and other job-creating enterprises have a tremendous opportunity to explain directly to their elected officials exactly why they oppose the anti-worker card check bill. And, according to the Rocky Mount Telegram, that’s exactly what happened earlier this week in North Carolina. ... Read more »
Members of Congress home for the two week district work period may have escaped the Washington echo chamber, but they can’t escape the nationwide echo of opposition to the anti-worker card check plan. Just yesterday, a coalition of minority business groups became the latest to raise their voices in opposition to the so-called Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that actually takes away workers’ abili... Read more »
Though Congress is not in session, the threat of pending legislation to deny workers the right to a secret ballot in union organizing elections is still very real. That’s why editorial pages around the country continue to pile on in opposition to this anti-worker, anti-growth plan. On Sunday, an editorial in the Grand Rapids Press spelled out the dangers of the so-called Employee Free Choice Act –... Read more »
Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-CA), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education Committee, today welcomed the results of a new study from the U.S. Department of Education that confirmed the positive outcomes of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP). The report found measurable achievement gains among students who participated in the program, as well as continued high levels of parenta... Read more »
For anyone who mistakenly thought the anti-worker card check bill was no longer a threat, an exclusive story online at Politico should serve as a jarring wakeup call. Reporter Mike Allen reveals that labor officials plan to use the upcoming two week Congressional district work period to undertake “the biggest grassroots mobilization of America’s workers since the final week of the presidential ele... Read more »
Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-CA), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, today highlighted provisions in both the House-passed and Senate-passed budget resolutions that support continuation of a longstanding and successful federal student financial assistance program. While McKeon opposed the budget because he believes it spends too much, taxes too much, and borrows... Read more »
Word of card check’s devastating consequences for the American economy has spread like wildfire, and small business owners all over the country are taking notice. After all, the card check scheme would effectively eliminate secret ballots in workplace organizing elections, putting workers at risk of intimidation and public pressure while potentially jeopardizing hundreds of thousands of American j... Read more »
On this day of pranks and practical jokes, it would be easy to wonder if the anti-worker card check bill was nothing but an elaborate hoax. After all, a bill that has been universally rejected by opinion leaders and the American people themselves can hardly be taken seriously. Unfortunately for American workers, the plan is all too real. Under card check, secret ballots in workplace organizing ele... Read more »
A better question would be: Who cares? Bartlet was one of the main characters in The West Wing, a fictional TV show about the White House which went off the air in 2006. You might as well ask the doctors on E.R. for their thoughts on health care reform. But that’s not going to stop backers of the grossly misnamed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) from pretending that the make-believe Bartlet Adminis... Read more »
This bill is largely the same as the GIVE Act, a bipartisan bill that this chamber passed overwhelmingly two weeks ago. The other chamber took up our version of the bill and made a few minor changes – including some that significantly improve the bill. I would like to address a few of the key Republican provisions that were in the House bill and still remain in this bill. Additionally, I will disc... Read more »
