Bill Text: MS HC46 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: U.S. Congress; urge not to support legislation removing or restricting the use of private-ballot elections in union formations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2010-04-28 - Died In Committee [HC46 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2010-HC46-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2010 Regular Session
To: Rules
By: Representative Aldridge
House Concurrent Resolution 46
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION TO THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS EXPRESSING THE OPPOSITION OF MISSISSIPPIANS TO THE DEPRIVATION OF THEIR RIGHT TO CHOOSE BY SECRET BALLOT WHETHER TO SUPPORT OR OPPOSE UNION REPRESENTATION.
WHEREAS, the so-called Employee Free Choice Act proposes to grant labor organizations the exclusive, legal right to represent employees without allowing those employees to express their choice through government-conducted, secret ballot elections, as has been the tradition and law in this nation for more than a half century; and
WHEREAS, the so-called Employee Free Choice Act substitutes labor organizations' self-interested, unregulated, unsupervised and unreliable card solicitation for traditional, government-supervised secret ballot elections to determine union representation; and
WHEREAS, the so-called Employee Free Choice Act is likely to result in misrepresentations to, coercion and intimidation of employees in the collection of union authorization cards by self-interested solicitors; and
WHEREAS, the so-called Employee Free Choice Act may encourage falsification of employee signatures that cannot be contested effectively, either by the aggrieved employees or by their employers; and
WHEREAS, the so-called Employee Free Choice Act blocks employee and employer escape of the consequences by empowering government-designated arbitrators to impose union-advocated contracts, with union membership and dues-deduction clauses, on those employees and employers even if the contracts are opposed by the employers and the employees; and
WHEREAS, the Legislature of the State of Mississippi will, in such circumstances, be compelled by the people of the state to enact measures to deter and to remedy such abuses, within the limits of its separate, sovereign authority:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, THE SENATE CONCURRING THEREIN, That we do hereby respectfully request the Congress of the United States to defeat the so-called Employee Free Choice Act, and to refrain from any enactment tending to deprive the people of this or any state of their traditional, lawful right to express their choice for or against union representation in government-conducted, secret ballot elections, and to refrain from any enactment tending to subject employers and employees to the terms of labor agreements which are not, in fact, agreements at all, but are instead decrees of unelected, unaccountable government agents about what is best for employers and employees previously unknown to them.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That this resolution be presented to the Mississippi Congressional Delegation; the Honorable Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader; the Honorable Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader; the Honorable Nancy Pelosi, House Speaker; the Honorable John Boehner, House Minority Leader; and to the members of the Capitol Press Corps.
