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Republican House Bill’s Goal: Deny Workers a Voice
Earlier this year, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) proposed some modest rule changes to streamline and modernize the way union elections are conducted. While those rules are still under review, Republicans on the House Education and Workforce Committee today approved a bill that would add months- or years-long delays to union elections.
Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) says the Republican bill (H.R. 3094) would “encourage employers to spend thousands of dollars on attorneys to file frivolous appeals to gum up the election process.”
The bill’s clear intention is to wear down workers so that they give up fighting for a better deal.
Miller, who dubs the bill the Election Prevention Act, says:
Its singular goal is to delay and ultimately prevent union representation elections. Its aim is to deny workers the opportunity for a voice at work.
The Republican bill establishes several new waiting periods before an election can go forward. It also gives employers more grounds to appeal pre-election decisions by the NLRB and also allows employers—not workers and the union they wish to join—a larger role in determining who is part of a bargaining unit.
The attack on workers’ rights by House Republicans is nothing new. In September, the House passed a bill that would cripple the NLRB and allow employers to retaliate against workers who exercise their workplace rights. Under the bill, employers would even be able to legally eliminate workers’ job. The legislation is part of the Republican attack against the agency for its issuance of a routine complaint against the Boeing Co. in April. Says Miller:
We have seen that, when the NLRB simply enforces the law on behalf of workers, the House majority raises holy-hell. The agency has been met with unprecedented attempts to interfere with open cases, threatening workers’ constitutional due process rights to a fair trial free from political interference.
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If (H.R.3094) makes it through the house and senate you know there is no way President Obama will sign it.
Employers are evil or can turn evil when there profits decrease
That is why every worker needs a union.
Employers are are evil in pursuit of profits or become evil when
there profit decrease. That is why every worker needs a union.
We need more Unions in the United States….STAND UP AMERICA fight for what is right and we will WIN….WIN ….WIN we cannot allow these rich pigs to take us down….
It is time that the employees take over ownership of the companies they work for if it has anything to do with public assets. Time for the gravy train of privatization of public assets to end. Any company who can not negotiate in good faith ought to be taken over by the employees. If they can’t afford it there should be a government loan available at no interest so they can purchase it and make it work for everyone. We don’t need an elite criminal class to enslave us and its time we let them know it. The republicons are like a fungus infecting the cause of free men every where and its time we take our medicine and cut the fungus off before it kills us.