This winter, Republicans accomplished something that hadn’t been done in more than three decades. They reformed the tax code, restoring American businesses to tax competitiveness with businesses aboard and, one hopes, paving the way toward a period of broad-based prosperity.
That’s quite an achievement. But if one such 30-year milestone is impressive, imagine how much more impressed voters will find it if Republicans reform laws governing unions and workplace representation, which hasn't been done for three generations.
Republicans have introduced the Employee Rights Act in recent Congresses, a bill that would do just that. Its most important accomplishment would be to restore workplace democracy with regular and periodic secret-ballot workplace elections. For the first time in 80 years — let's repeat that, 80 years — workers would be guaranteed a say in their representation at work, rather than being stuck with whichever union was chosen by workers at their companies decades earlier.
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Workers have rights? Workers have less rights every year. I've been watching this, as a Teamster, every year for 50 years. All they've accomplished is to destroy the numbers needed to keep the pensions afloat. Before you go off on unions, the union have safety requirements in place long before the government did.
ReplyDeleteYou don't think that "workers would be guaranteed a say in their representation at work"?
DeleteNo. Who or how would it be enforced/
DeleteSo 'unions' can take as much as they like out of your pay, correct?
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