Back Home, Lawmakers Are Asked: ‘Where Are the Jobs?’
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Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) was expecting a friendly crowd—like a pleasant late afternoon tea party—at a town hall meeting last week.
Instead, reports Harris County AFL-CIO President Richard Shaw,
he was greeted with community and labor folks holding signs asking him where the jobs are that the “job creators” (the rich who received the tax breaks) were supposed to have created.
Culberson wasn’t the only Texas lawmaker who faced action from working families for their support of tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations instead of working for an economy that strengthens the middle class and creates jobs.
Beware of the Big Lie Bill
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Opponents of the Employee Free Choice Act in Congress made their Big Lie into a bill Wednesday, when Republican Sens. Jim DeMint (S.C.) and Mike Enzi (Wyo.) introduced the so-called Secret Ballot Protection Act.
Before we go further, let’s clear up the bill’s false implication right now:
The Employee Free Choice Act would not—repeat after me—would not, take away the secret ballot National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election process if workers seeking to form a union wanted to use it. The Employee Free Choice would ensure workers made the decision of whether to select a union via majority sign-up (card-check) or via ballot process. Choice is good. That’s one reason why we called it Employee Free Choice—because it would enable employees, not management, to make the decision of how to form a union.
The alleged goal of S. 478 is to:
amend the National Labor Relations Act to ensure the right of employees to a secret-ballot election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board.
