The following op-ed, penned by Rep. John Kline (R-MN) and published in the Star Tribune, explains how the anti-worker card check plan would undermine workers’ basic democratic rights. Kline is the senior Republican member of the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee and a leading voice in the fight to protect the secret ballot for workers. A recent article characterized the debate s... Read more »
Labor-backed special interest groups spent millions in the last election cycle to elect candidates who would vote for their anti-worker card check scheme, a plan to strip workers of secret ballots in unionizing elections. Now, these same special interest groups are opening their wallets again, this time on a multi-million dollar campaign to try to convince the American public to support the undemo... Read more »
Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-CA), the senior Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, today announced the Republican leadership for the panel’s five subcommittees. Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) has been named Senior Republican on the Workforce Protections Subcommittee. Rep. Price has served on the Education and Labor Committee since coming to Congress in 2005 and has been a leading v... Read more »
Joining a growing chorus of voices speaking out against the anti-worker card check scheme, U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao today penned an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal arguing against the deceptively-named Employee Free Choice Act, which she noted would “deprive workers of the ability to vote privately in workplace unionization elections.” She goes on to explain— "There is a push i... Read more »
As powerful union bosses continue to advocate for the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act, public opposition to this anti-worker proposal has centered on a key provision—known as card check—that would strip workers of the right to a secret ballot when voting on whether or not to join a particular union. While it’s important to focus on protecting the secret ballot, the card check scheme includes oth... Read more »
As opposition grows to the anti-worker card check proposal, much attention has been paid to the bill’s elimination of the secret ballot for workers deciding whether to form a union. Unfortunately, an equally troubling provision stripping workers of their rights has largely escaped public scrutiny. Quietly lurking within the Democrats’ card check scheme – deceptively named the Employee Free Choice ... 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 »
Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-CA), the senior Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, today announced the lineup of Republican members selected to serve on the committee for the 111th Congress. Newly-elected members joining the committee are: Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY), Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA), Rep. Duncan D. Hunter (R-CA), and Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN)... Read more »
The following op-ed appears online at Townhall.com. In it, Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-CA), the senior Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, highlights the hypocrisy of Democratic leaders who support the secret ballot for themselves or for foreign workers, but who would abolish the secret ballot in American workplaces. Secret Ballot Hypocrisy Howard McKeon Friday, January... 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 »
