Citing concerns that the role of scientific evidence may be diminished in vital workplace safety decisions, Rep. John Kline (R-MN) today urged Democratic leaders in the U.S. Senate to hold a public hearing on the nomination of Professor David Michaels to serve as Assistant Secretary for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration before advancing him to a vote by the full Senate for the post... Read more »
President Obama is looking for a few good ideas. Specifically, he’s looking for suggestions about jobs during a forum on economic growth planned for next month. The Washington Post has the details here: “With the nation's unemployment rate at its highest level in 26 years, President Obama plans to bring together CEOs, small business owners and financial experts to sound out ideas for continuing to... Read more »
Our topic today is a timely one, with employers, workers, and their families facing the uncertainty of a widespread influenza outbreak with wide ranging effects. Unfortunately, the uncertainty I mentioned is pervasive. Even the scope of the outbreak is unknown. The Washington Post reported on Friday that “total H1N1 cases in the United States range from 14 million to 34 million, and total deaths r... Read more »
Worker intimidation is just one of many, many reasons why the Employee Free Choice Act should not become law. But, as Wall Street Journal editorial board member Matthew Kaminski recently reported, this practice is allegedly underway already as two unions duke it out in California. On one side is the Service Employees International Union, a big time EFCA booster whose president, Andy Stern, is a fr... Read more »
As we wrote yesterday, unions are pushing for laws similar to the Employee Free Choice Act in many states because their job-killing agenda is going nowhere on Capitol Hill. But in Missouri, supporters of the secret ballot are pushing back. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Thursday that a group trying to protect the privacy of workers in the Show-Me State survived a legal challenge to their eff... Read more »
Frustrated that Washington Democrats have not made good on their promise to pass the job killing, misnamed Employee Free Choice Act, union leadership is putting the pressure on states to carry their agenda. A recent report in the Wall Street Journal highlights how unions are taking a local approach in the same spirit of their national plans to undermine workers’ right to a secret ballot: “Both sid... Read more »
Like many business owners large and small, Michael Regan is worried about the future – especially if that future includes the Employee Free Choice Act. In a blog post for Logistics Management, Michael Regan, CEO of TranzAct Technologies Inc., noted that unemployment is at a record 10.2 percent nationally because “our political leadership has created uncertainty about the future” and, when faced wi... Read more »
As congressional Democrats trip over themselves to find new and innovative ways to entrench more power in Washington, Americans are reminded of those big government agenda items that are already proving hazardous to the economy. At the top of the list, the mere threat of the grossly misnamed Employee Free Choice Act is already stifling job creation even though Speaker Pelosi and her union allies h... Read more »
Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, has requested information about the Education Department’s efforts to influence pending legislation that would end private sector-based federal student loans. Kline’s request comes in response to multiple media accounts alleging that department officials have pressed colleges and universities to support the... Read more »
Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement today after Speaker Pelosi and congressional Democrats rushed through their massive $1.3 trillion overhaul of America’s health care system. “Faced with the highest unemployment rate in almost three decades and a Washington spending spree that will saddle our children with insu... Read more »
