Congress is poised to passed a “laundry list” of legislation written by Big Labor lobbyists that is “. . . nothing less than a radical rewrite of our nation’s unemployment laws,” says Randel Johnson, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s vice president for labor, immigration and employee benefits, Forbes magazine reports.
But things are about to get worse.
“We’re very concerned about the next four years,” Johnson says. The prospect of Democrats controlling Congress and the White House is unsettling for foes of labor expansion. Even before Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., sealed his party’s nomination for president this week, he’d already scooped up endorsements from big unions like the International Brotherhood of Teamsters [IBT], the United Steelworkers Union [USW] and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
McDowell County Commission on Aging employee attacks NLRB policy that SEIU union and employer used to “agree” to throw out ballots already cast and block future votes to remove union
NLRB Regional Office used technicality to cancel election that Sun River Health workers requested and was previously agreed to by SEIU union and company
While Americans overwhelmingly support the Right to Work principle, Joe Biden was committed to wiping out all state Right to Work laws. As he put it, “I’m a union President. Make no bones about it.”