Why Are Republicans Looking To Pass Obama-Era Forced Unionization Bill? |
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Why Are Republicans Looking To Pass Obama-Era Forced Unionization Bill?
The goal of giving the government authority to impose labor terms on workers has always been to give more power to union officials.
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The so-called Faster Labor Contracts Act (FLCA — S. 844/H.R. 5408) aims to narrow the time it takes for labor unions and employers to sign contracts with each other. It would do so by stipulating that, after a few months of negotiation with no agreement, federal arbitrators will gain the power to write up their own labor terms and impose them on the union, the business, and the workers without further debate.
That kind of “binding arbitration” could certainly be “faster,” but the government dictating its own terms doesn’t exactly create a “contract,” a mutual agreement between two parties.
Nevertheless, the FLCA may soon get a vote on the House Floor. A discharge petition on the bill has reached 214 signatures: nearly every Democrat plus Republican Reps. Mike Lawler of New York, Robert Bresnahan and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, and Max Miller of Ohio. Four more signatures would get the petition to 218, enough to circumvent Speaker Mike Johnson and force a House vote.
FLCA’s rise has baffled many labor policy experts because the bill copies almost verbatim binding arbitration language that Democrats tried and failed to pass using the filibuster-proof majority they briefly held in 2009. That year, Democrats took control of 60 U.S. Senate seats. With Barack Obama in the White House and Nancy Pelosi in charge of........