Our readers are well aware of costly and wasteful project labor agreements that eliminate competitive bidding on construction projects to ensure that the project pays a “union wage.” Members of the House were forced to decide on whether tax dollars should be spent in a competitive manner for defense and national security projects or whether money should be handed to big labor unions instead. 209 members voted to give taxpayer funds to big labor but a majority — 211 — voted to end the giveaways. It is unclear whether the language survives the final version of the legislation but it is progress nonetheless. An effort to end PLAs in the last Congress failed.
New co-sponsors added to the growing list of members supporting the National Right To Work Act: Rep. Brett Guthrie (KY 02), Sen. Thom Tillis (NC) and Rep Michael Burgess (TX 26). Now there are 78 co-sponsors in the U.S. House of Representatives and 21 co-sponsors in the U.S. Senate. Are your Members Of Congress on this list?
Thanks largely to aggressive grass-roots activism by members of the National Right to Work Committee, the number of congressional cosponsors of the forced-dues repeal legislation introduced in the U.S. House and Senate early this year continues to rise. S.525 and H.R.2571, respectively introduced early in the 2019-20 Congress by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), had a combined total of nearly 100 sponsors as this Newsletter went to press in early October. These essentially identical bills would not add a single word to federal labor law. Instead, they would simply repeal the current provisions in the federal code that authorize and promote the termination of employees for refusal to pay dues or fees to an unwanted union.
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