Open Shops in the 21st Century Workplace: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Second Session, Hearing Held in Washington, DC, May 3, 2000, Band 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 2000 - 54 Seiten |
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49 percent AFL-CIO agency fee payer allows appropriate reconciliation believe benefits Bob Goodlatte BOB SCHAFFER BREDHOFF & KAISER California Saw Chairman Hoekstra collective bargaining Colorado COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION compel condition of employment crew democratic employees to join employees who choose ERNIE FLETCHER exclusive representation exclusive representative Federal Labor Law Federal labor policy Federal law financially support forced-dues freedom Hayek issue join a union Labor Relations Act labor unions legislation liberty majoritarian principles majority minority National Labor Relations National Right NLRB non-right non-union open shop OPENING STATEMENT OVERSIGHT AND INVESTIGATIONS pay dues pay union dues PETE HOEKSTRA private organization private sector employees privilege protect Railway Labor Act REED LARSON require employees Richard Trumka Roemer RON KIND Samuel Gompers Schaffer SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT Supreme Court Tancredo TESTIMONY OF REED Thank TIM ROEMER union hierarchy union membership union officials union security agreements VAN HILLEARY vote Washington workers to pay workforce
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Seite 45 - ... or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection, and shall also have the right to refrain from any or all of such activities except to the extent that such right may be affected by an agreement requiring membership in a labor organization as a condition of employment as authorized in section 8 (a) (3).
Seite 34 - ... to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical...
Seite 11 - ... purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.
Seite 46 - ... privilege of individualism is protected by law. Such a nucleus of unorganized labor will check oppression by the union as the union checks oppression by the employer.
Seite 46 - The union attains success when it reaches the ideal condition, and the ideal condition for a union is to be strong and stable, and yet to have in the trade outside its own ranks an appreciable number of men who are nonunionists.
Seite 46 - It cannot be stressed enough that the coercion which unions have been permitted to exercise contrary to all principles of freedom under the law is primarily the coercion of fellow workers.
Seite 44 - Magna Carta" of workers' rights, employees who never requested union representation are forced to accept a union as their monopoly bargaining agent. Then, adding insult to injury, under the Federal Labor Policy they are forced to pay for representation they never requested and do not want. That the Nl.RA is often perceived as a great charter of freedom was not entirely unintentional on the part of its drafters. In fact, it contains some of the most deliberately misleading language human beings could...
Seite 46 - ... people who come in through the method of education and voluntarism. So you have an opportunity to bring into your organization people •who come in because they want to come in and who will participate, therefore, in the full activity of your organization.
Seite 45 - In order to maintain themselves, unions have got to have some ability to strap their members to the mast. "The only way unions can exercise countervailing power visa-vis management is to hold their members
Seite 46 - Local 440's Secretary-Treasurer admitted to The Denver Post that the union hierarchy was willing to "accept a pact in which workers would have had their wages frozen" but was "adamant that it never will accept Hirschfeld's demand for an open shop'." Although this injustice — the pressure on employers to barter away employee freedom in exchange for dollar benefits for themselves — is a common occurrence, it rarely comes into public view. The particular incident cited here came to light only because...