In case you missed it, the following op-ed by Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-CA) appears in The Hill newspaper today as part of a special section on health care reform. McKeon is the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee and a member of the House Republican Health Care Task Force. Cure should not be worse than disease By Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) Healthcare reform is at... Read more »
Adding his voice to a growing chorus of opinion leaders, legal experts, and hardworking Americans, the Republican Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives has penned a compelling defense of secret ballot voting rights for American workers. The op-ed from Rep. John Boehner (R-OH), slated for publication in the March 2009 issue of U.S. News and World Report, exposes the misnamed Employee Free Cho... Read more »
Thank you Chairman Miller. I know that adoption of the oversight plan is considered a rather mundane task, but there are a few issues in particular that I’d like to discuss before we adopt the plan. The purpose of an oversight plan is to help guide our work over the next two years. Historically, the oversight plan has been mutually agreed upon by the majority and the minority. And this year, I app... Read more »
Thank you Chairman Miller. This legislation was thoroughly debated and vetted by this committee in the 110th Congress, so I’ll keep my remarks brief. Many youth and families have benefitted from the services and support offered by residential treatment facilities. Unfortunately, those success stories have been overshadowed by devastating stories of abuse, neglect, and even death. Working with the ... Read more »
To help workers who are struggling to balance the demands of work and family, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) today introduced the Family-Friendly Workplace Act (H.R. 933), a bill that will eliminate barriers in federal law that prevent private sector workers from choosing more flexible work arrangements. McMorris Rodgers is a long-time advocate for working women and men and has proposed simila... Read more »
The card check method for requiring workers to publicly declare support for forming a union has already proven unpopular with the American people and with opinion leaders around the country. Now a top legal scholar has weighed in, publishing a detailed analysis that debunks the false claims made by card check supporters and makes a compelling case that enactment of the misnamed Employee Free Choic... Read more »
Responding to media reports that parental options in education are coming under fire by some in the education establishment, the House education committee’s top Republican has called on U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to ensure parental options are protected and expanded, particularly for students in struggling schools. Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-CA) wrote to Secretary Duncan yesterda... Read more »
Despite the fact that momentum seems to be waning for the anti-worker card check plan, editorial boards all around the country continue to speak up on behalf of worker rights, and specifically the right to a secret ballot. Last month, Secret Ballot Watch highlighted the fact that special interest groups are having a hard time justifying their plan to deny workers the right to a secret ballot. For ... Read more »
Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-CA), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, today called on House Democrats to hold hearings on legislation that would replace federally-supervised secret ballot organizing elections with a public sign-up process that makes workers’ votes public for all to see. Numerous media accounts have indicated that Democrats are on the verge of int... Read more »
Dogged by massive unpopularity and a losing message, supporters of the anti-worker card check plan are going to great lengths to revive their ill-conceived plan to deny workers the right to a secret ballot. Luckily for American workers, editorial pages around the country aren’t buying into the rhetoric. While supporters of the card check plan struggle to convince the American people that they aren... Read more »
