Washington, DC (March 5, 2014) \u2013 This morning, National Right to Work Foundation staff attorney William Messenger testified before the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce on the dangers of the National Labor Relations Board\u2019s (NLRB) proposed election rules. <\/p>\n
The committee, which is chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), held a hearing entitled \u201cCulture of Union Favoritism: The Return of the NLRB\u2019s Ambush Election Rule\u201d on a series of election rule changes proposed by the NLRB that leave employees uninformed about potential downsides to unionization. <\/p>\n
Messenger, a veteran Foundation staff attorney who has argued before the Supreme Court, contends that dramatically shortening the period before unionization elections will hurt workers\u2019 ability to cast an informed vote. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe short time frame under the proposed rules will make it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for individual employees opposed to unionization to organize against a union\u2019s well-funded and professionally orchestrated campaign to win the monopoly bargaining privilege,\u201d wrote Messenger in testimony submitted to the Committee prior to the hearing. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe NLRB continues to try to rig the game in favor of aggressive union organizers,\u201d said Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Foundation. \u201cThe National Right to Work Foundation, which represents thousands of employees nationwide, opposes these rule changes because they would prevent workers from making an informed decision about unionization.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Washington, DC (March 5, 2014) \u2013 This morning, National Right to Work Foundation staff attorney William Messenger testified before the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce on the dangers of the National Labor Relations Board\u2019s (NLRB) proposed election rules. <\/p>\n
The committee, which is chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), held a hearing entitled \u201cCulture of Union Favoritism: The Return of the NLRB\u2019s Ambush Election Rule\u201d on a series of election rule changes proposed by the NLRB that leave employees uninformed about potential downsides to unionization. <\/p>\n
Messenger, a veteran Foundation staff attorney who has argued before the Supreme Court, contends that dramatically shortening the period before unionization elections will hurt workers\u2019 ability to cast an informed vote. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n