Bill Title: As Introduced 128th General AssemblyRegular Session2009-2010S. C. R. No. 2 Senator Gibbs
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-02-17 - To Insurance, Commerce, & Labor
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As Introduced
| 128th General Assembly | | Regular Session | | 2009-2010 |
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Cosponsors:
Senators Seitz, Schuring, Faber, Buehrer, Schuler
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
| To request the Ohio Congressional delegation to | 1 |
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oppose legislation that disenfranchises Ohio | 2 |
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workers by removing their right to a private | 3 |
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF OHIO
(THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING):
| WHEREAS, The right to a private ballot when voting on | 5 |
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external representation is fundamentally inherent in our | 6 |
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representative Republic and shall not be infringed upon; and | 7 |
| WHEREAS, Ohio taxpayers spend tremendous resources to foster | 8 |
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and support free elections at home and abroad, it does not make | 9 |
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sense to roll back the clock on our own workplace elections by | 10 |
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abolishing federally protected private ballots; and | 11 |
| WHEREAS, Passing the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) will | 12 |
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replace a federally supervised private ballot election with a | 13 |
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system that facilitates coercion and intimidation, known as "card | 14 |
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check," whereby employees publicly sign cards to vote for | 15 |
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unionization; and | 16 |
| WHEREAS, The Chairman of the United States House Education | 17 |
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and Labor Committee, Representative Miller (Democrat, California), | 18 |
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and staunch supporter of the American "card check" bill, sent a | 19 |
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letter to a Mexican government official that states, "...we feel | 20 |
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that the private ballot is absolutely necessary in order to ensure | 21 |
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workers are not intimidated into voting for a union they may | 22 |
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otherwise not choose."; and | 23 |
| WHEREAS, The bill would leave Ohio employees vulnerable to | 24 |
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harassment, misinformation, labor union pressure, and would | 25 |
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ultimately have a significant negative impact on the Ohio small | 26 |
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business community; and | 27 |
| WHEREAS, Small businesses are less likely to have labor | 28 |
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counsel and are more susceptible to the complicated legal | 29 |
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restrictions employers face during union organizing drives; and | 30 |
| WHEREAS, This legislation departs from over six decades of | 31 |
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precedent established by the National Labor Relations Act by | 32 |
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imposing contract terms on private employers through a process of | 33 |
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compulsory binding arbitration; and | 34 |
| WHEREAS, The mandatory binding arbitration provisions of EFCA | 35 |
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deny workers the right to participate in the collective bargaining | 36 |
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process between employees and the union; now therefore be it | 37 |
| RESOLVED, That the Ohio Senate (the House of Representatives | 38 |
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concurring) finds that so-called "card check" legislation such as | 39 |
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the "Employee Free Choice Act" is detrimental to the rights of | 40 |
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Ohio workers and an offense against democratic principles, and | 41 |
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urges all members of the Ohio Congressional delegation to support | 42 |
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worker freedom by opposing the EFCA and any of its components in | 43 |
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2009 and in future years; and be it further | 44 |
| RESOLVED, That the Clerk of the Senate transmit duly | 45 |
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authenticated copies of this Resolution to the members of the Ohio | 46 |
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Congressional delegation and to the news media of Ohio. | 47 |
