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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Throughout last month\u2019s\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/edworkforce.house.gov\/calendar\/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=409767\">first-ever U.S. House hearing<\/a>\u00a0on national right-to-work legislation in the Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions (HELP), the dividing line between the panel\u2019s Republican majority and its Democratic minority was very clear.<\/p>\n<p>Every single one of the Republican HELP panel members who spoke during the 130-minute-long hearing expressed support for HR1200, the National Right to Work Act. This simple and straightforward legislation would prohibit the firing of any worker covered by federal labor law for mere refusal to join or pay dues to an unwanted union.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>At the same time, all of the Democratic HELP panelists who spoke out insisted that Big Labor bosses should have the power to get workers fired if they refuse to fork over money to a union that wields monopoly-bargaining power over front-line employees at their business.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats made clear that they don\u2019t think a union should have to provide any real evidence that a worker personally benefits from unionization before extracting money from him or her. Nor do they think we should take the word of workers who state that they do not benefit from unionization.<\/p>\n<p>But even these Big Labor politicians and their handpicked hearing witness, Jody Calemine of the union-label Century Foundation, refused to defend openly the shady deals between union bosses and business executives that illegally force workers to become full union members and pay full union dues as a condition of employment.<\/p>\n<p>For example, when Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) asked Calemine if he agreed with the proposition that \u201cthere should not be any kind of reprisal for an employee who chooses not to join a labor organization,\u201d the latter responded: \u201cCorrect.\u201d\u00a0 Similarly, Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-Conn.) said that no worker should be \u201cthreatened, harassed, or tricked into joining a union.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Calemine and Hayes had just heard testimony from two witnesses \u2014\u00a0public defender Brunilda Vargas and registered nurse Jeanette Geary \u2014\u00a0that they personally had been lied to and threatened with termination because of their refusal to join a union. But Calemine, Hayes and their cohorts brushed off this testimony, claiming, in Hayes\u2019s words, that such abuses are \u201cnot representative of unions as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, that isn\u2019t true. The abuses described by Vargas and Geary are perfectly representative of Big Labor.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>To demonstrate the point, in my own oral testimony to the panel, I quoted directly from Article II of the United Auto Workers union\u2019s\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/uaw.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Ford-Changed-Pages-2023.pdf\">new national contract<\/a>\u00a0covering tens of thousands of rank-and-file factory employees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmployees covered by this agreement at the time it becomes effective and who are members of the Union at that time, shall be required as a condition of continued employment to continue membership in the Union for the duration of this Agreement,\u201d the contract states. \u201cEmployees covered by this Agreement who are not members at the time this Agreement becomes effective shall be required as a condition of continued employment to become members of the Union.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This language can have no conceivable purpose other than to mislead workers about their legal rights. And except for the effective date tacked on at the end, it is exactly the same deceitful, anti-worker compulsory-membership provision that was inserted into the 2019 UAW contract by \u201cold guard\u201d UAW bosses, from whom current \u201creformist\u201d boss Shawn Fain is eager to distance himself.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>But\u00a0Fain is by all <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts & Themes & Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earances no better than his ex-con predecessors Gary Jones and Dennis Williams.\u00a0UAW rank-and-filers \u2014 even those in non-Right to Work states \u2014 have rights and are supposed to enjoy at least minimal freedom-of-association\u00a0under U.S. law, yet the union that would represent them does not respect those rights.<\/p>\n<p>If politicians like Hayes are really opposed to the illegal imposition of forced union membership upon American employees, as they claim, they would be calling Fain out for this. But not a single anti-Right to Work member of Congress has done so. Indeed, many praise him to the skies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Mark Mix is president of the National Right to Work Committee.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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