Bill Text: GA HR71 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: United State Congress; urge to oppose efforts to adopt "Employee Free Choice Act"
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-01-16 - House Second Readers [HR71 Detail]
Download: Georgia-2009-HR71-Introduced.html
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House
Resolution 71
By:
Representative O`Neal of the
146th
A
RESOLUTION
Urging
the Congress of the United States to oppose any efforts to adopt the so-called
"Employee Free Choice Act"; and for other purposes
WHEREAS,
recent actions by special labor interests have been trying to force through
Congress a new law that could change the American workplace and strip workers of
the sacred right to a secret ballot before authorizing a union organization;
and
WHEREAS,
current law allows companies to petition for a federally supervised secret
ballot election on whether to have a union in their workplace, allowing
employers and union workers to make their case to employees; and
WHEREAS,
under the current system, the workers may cast their ballot for or against a
union in private; and
WHEREAS,
under the "Employee Free Choice Act," union bosses want to get rid of the secret
ballot and instead install a union if a majority of workers can be pressured
into signing authorization cards; and
WHEREAS,
if pressured into signing authorization cards, without secret ballot to protect
them, the employees can be required to have dues extracted from their paychecks;
and
WHEREAS,
business owners would be kept intentionally uninformed of union organizing
drives, and there would be severe restrictions and huge new penalties imposed if
they chose to speak out regarding these efforts; and
WHEREAS,
if union organizers convince a majority of employees to sign cards, business
owners have 120 days to agree to a contract, that is, within 90 days plus 30
days mediation; and
WHEREAS,
if an agreement is not reached, a business owner enters binding arbitration
where a federal arbiter will dictate the terms of their new labor contract;
and
WHEREAS,
a coalition of more than 300 business and free enterprise organizations oppose
the "card check" process; and
WHEREAS,
the 28th National Convention of the Communist Party, USA, unanimously endorsed
the "Employee Free Choice Act"; and
WHEREAS,
the passage of this legislation would prove detrimental to overall integrity of
the American workplace.
NOW,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that the members of
Congress are urged to oppose any efforts to enact the so-called "Employee Free
Choice Act" or any similar Act aiming to remove the secret ballot from the union
organizing process.
BE
IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized
and directed to transmit an appropriate copy of this resolution to each member
of the Georgia congressional delegation.