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2020-02-06 -Land of the Free
House To Vote On Bill Designed To Nullify Right To Work Laws
[HotAir] House Democrats are preparing to force a vote on what’s known as the PRO Act (Protecting the Right to Organize) today. This giveaway to labor unions contains all manner of goodies on the Democrats’ wish list, including some that appear to be blatantly in defiance of previous Supreme Court rulings. The Competitive Enterprise Institute has published a summary of the major provisions and what it would mean to workers, particularly those in right to work states. Here are a couple of the worst parts of the bill.

Essentially nullifies 28 states’ right to work laws. In these states, workers at a unionized workplace may choose whether or not they want the union to represent them. The PRO Act would require non-union workers to pay union dues as a condition of employment, even when they opt out of union representation.

Force employers to provide unions with employees’ personal information, including home addresses, working hours, phone numbers, and email addresses. Unions have already used such information before to pressure workers to support unionization campaigns. As Kovacs writes: "In one example, the Communication Workers of America Local 1103 used a workers’ personal data to sign her up for unwanted magazine subscriptions and consumer products. She was billed thousands of dollars and had to spend hours each day unsubscribing herself."

The first item on the list dealing with the collection of dues from workers who opt out of union membership appears to directly fly in the face of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Janus v AFSCME, at least in spirit. Workers around the country have been winning one battle after another in court when seeking to have their union dues and fees refunded to them. Yet somehow the Democrats appear to believe they can just turn back the clock on all of this.

As for mandating that employers turn over the personal contact information of their workers to union representatives, the risk there should be obvious. That’s just an invitation for union thugs to dox or otherwise harass people who don’t go along with unionization schemes.

On top of that, the bill would also change the definition of "joint employer" to make it easier for unions to force themselves on franchise operations like the majority of McDonald’s restaurants. This has been on the wishlist of Democrats for a long time.

Heather Greenaway of the Workforce Fairness Institute sent a letter to the leadership of both parties in the House this week, informing them that they will be scoring this bill for their Congressional Labor Scorecard in the runup to this year’s elections. Here’s the introductory passage.

On behalf of the Workforce Fairness Institute (WFI), I am writing to share our organization’s vehement opposition to H.R. 2474, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act). WFI has serious concerns with the broad, overreaching nature of this legislation and the many ways in which it would undermine worker freedom and privacy, while simultaneously threatening businesses and entire industries that keep America’s economy thriving.
Gotta get back that sweet, sweet union due money and keep those pesky Union workers from going off the reservation.
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Posted by DarthVader 2020-02-06 11:20|| || Front Page|| [11 views ]  Top

#1 States right issue. Wont get past the court review...
Posted by 49 Pan 2020-02-06 11:40||   2020-02-06 11:40|| Front Page Top

#2 More sleazy proposed legislation coming from the Dems. Forced dues as a condition of employment even though the worker might want to opt out of the union? Reads like the Tax Penalty for not having health insurance under ObamaCare. That doesn't seem like it would pass Constitutional muster.

Having to pay dues that go to supporting the union candidate--usually a Dem is coercive. Suppose you don’t support the union political candidate? This legislation should be strongly opposed.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-02-06 11:58||   2020-02-06 11:58|| Front Page Top

#3 State's Rights. Dog Whistle!!
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-02-06 12:03||   2020-02-06 12:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Mussolini smiles. A partnership of labor, business and the (Fascist) government will be imposed on all levels of the economy to promote "Progress".
Posted by magpie 2020-02-06 13:04||   2020-02-06 13:04|| Front Page Top

#5 A virtue signaling symbolic gesture that is certain to be vetoed.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-02-06 13:46||   2020-02-06 13:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Do you remember the Orwellian NewSpeak titled Employee Free Choice Act of 2009 ?

First they make union membership compulsory. Then: Mussolini smiles as everything is a “partnership of government, unions and business”. They tride one way in 2009 and they are trying a different tactic now.
Posted by magpie 2020-02-06 13:50||   2020-02-06 13:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Dunno about States Rights defense. Feds have expanded power greatly using the Commerce Clause. I can see them using it here. (Assuming the Senate passes it and Trump signs it - better be a non-starter in both cases). Now with a Donk win in 2020 it'll be done by ukase.
Posted by Mercutio 2020-02-06 14:54||   2020-02-06 14:54|| Front Page Top

#8 Senate won't pass it.
Posted by Crusader 2020-02-06 18:30||   2020-02-06 18:30|| Front Page Top

#9 Borders really close on involuntary servitude to the unions.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-02-06 19:13||   2020-02-06 19:13|| Front Page Top

#10  Senate won't pass it.

That’s the bottom line — Abu Uluque and Crusader nail it. And the House Democrats know this, so it’s just kabuki theater for the rubes — the same nonsense we used to get excited about when House Republicans passed similar no-go legislation back when Barack Obama was president.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-02-06 22:13||   2020-02-06 22:13|| Front Page Top

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