Both House and Senate-Passed Measures Promote Forced Unionism
(Source: January 2010 NRTWC Newsletter)
In November, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly adopted one version of President Obama’s health-care “reform” (H.R.3962).
And last month, exactly 60 (the minimum number necessary) U.S. senators voted to cut off continuing debate by opponents of another version (H.R.3590). The Senate then rubber-stamped H.R.3590 while most Americans were nestled snugly in their beds early on Christmas Eve morning.
President Obama has already endorsed both H.R.3962 and H.R.3590, and is pressuring the House and Senate to get one of these measures, or more likely, a “compromise” blend of the two, to his desk for his signature within the next few weeks.
Meanwhile, the National Right to Work Committee and its growing base of 2.5 million members and supporters are fighting furiously to prevent the White House and Congress from making health-care “reform” a Trojan Horse for more forced unionism.
Granting New Special Privileges to Big Labor Could Disrupt Health Care
Tucked away in the two enormous bills now headed to a conference committee are new special privileges for Big Labor that, if granted, could have serious consequences for health-care employees and employers and the American economy as a whole.
For example, both H.R.3962 and H.R.3590 open the door for institution in all 50 states of forced-unionism schemes like those pursued by former Big Labor Govs. Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.) and Gray Davis (D-Calif.).
Both governors repaid tremendous political debts to Service Employees International Union (SEIU) czar Andy Stern by reclassifying state-reimbursed in-home health-care contractors as state employees — and forcing them to pay union dues in order to continue receiving reimbursements.
And the more radical of the two bills, H.R.3962, grants Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, a longtime union-boss ally, tremendous discretionary authority to impose a new labor-relations regime on doctors and nurses treating “public-option” patients.
Ms. Sebelius could quickly make submission to union monopoly bargaining and payment of compulsory union dues required standards for “public-option” health-care workers across the country, resulting potentially in hundreds of thousands of doctors and nurses being corralled into unions.
History Shows That Monopoly Bargaining Encourages Strikes, Both Legal and Illegal
Another H.R.3962 provision would either exacerbate the horrendous national debt or foist an additional burden on taxpayers by furnishing $10 billion in bailout money for mismanaged union health-benefit funds.
“As long as ObamaCare retains such Big Labor special-interest provisions, including above all the provisions promoting the forced unionization of the health-care industry, Right to Work supporters will remain determined to defeat it,” said Committee President Mark Mix.
“Monopoly bargaining inflicts serious harm on employees, employers, and customers even in cases where it doesn’t, for one reason or another, result in disruptive strikes.
“And history shows that, even if a final ‘public-option’ scheme adopted by Congress putatively bans strikes, union bosses will nevertheless gain the power to shut down medical facilities with sick-outs and other such tactics.
“Doctors, nurses and other health-care workers will come under enormous pressure to abandon their patients at Big Labor’s behest, even if strikes are theoretically illegal.
“The Committee will do everything possible to prevent Big Labor from hijacking health-care reform.
“We are now prepared to launch a full-scale lobbying blitz, including TV ads targeting key senators if necessary, to defeat all the new special privileges for union bosses tucked away in pending health-care legislation.”
Right to Work Supporters Must Keep Turning up the Pressure on Capitol Hill
Mr. Mix expressed “cautious optimism” that the new special privileges for union bosses hidden in H.R.3962 and H.R.3590 can be defeated, but warned that the battle would be difficult:
“Right to Work supporters everywhere must keep turning up the pressure on Congress, or a health-care ‘reform’ that is really a Trojan Horse for forced unionism will indeed become the law of the land.
“Forcing people into a union in order to get reimbursed for caring for their sick children or elderly parents isn’t health-care reform. Nor is funneling additional billions of tax dollars into mismanaged union benefit funds health-care reform.
“Over the next few weeks, Congress needs to hear that message — over and over again.”
Absolute NO on Obamacare with the unbelievable poison pill page 1000 to disallow revision or dissolving of the whole bill.
Please vote no,
John R. Crew, M.D.
IT SOON WILL BE OVER AND EVERY ONE NOW KNOWS THAT THE DEMS.. HAVE SHOWN WHO THEY CARE ABOUT.
UNIONS, THUGS, AND CHEATS.& THEMSELVES. REAL AMERICANS
DO NOT STICK IT UP YOUR RECTUM.
I am so outraged!! I have not slept for an entire year. I am 65 now and will be targetted for their DEATH panel to end my life since I need medication to be live. There is NO way my medical group will continue to pay for the meds I need under this communist bill….
It will be the destruction of our nation. Do not vote for this obammination of a health care bill.
Please Stop the insane proposals of this administration This is not the solution. I don’t want this and I do not want my grandchildren in debt over this .
STOP THE OBAMA HEALTH CARE, WE DON’T WANT IT!!
How many times do we have to tell you, just STOP IT.
Do you hear me? STOP IT damit STOP IT!!
Kenneth Toliver
Taylor,Mo.63471
We all know that healthcare reform is needed! This need does not justify the pork bloated 2600 page mess the Pelosi team is attempting to force upon us by their schemes to avoid a straight up or down vote. This 2600 page gift to big Ins. companies needs to be scrapped. A bill to correct our healthcare should not be written in locked, dark offices. We should not have “pass it on Christmas Eve, or during the wee dark hours before you can read it” as a condition! This is not the American way! We want transparency! We want to know what our paid politicicians are doing for us and against us.
Subject: NO TO Obamacare
We cannot believe that Congress is even contemplating voting for the greatest travesty to ever befall on the United States of America.
1. $ 2.5 Trillion increase in taxes.
2. Attack on Medical Civil Liberties and freedom on so many levels we can’t believe that this is happening.
3. We do not believe that a government which cannot effectively run Medicare, Medicaid, USPS, Amtrak or the Veteran’s Administration has anywhere near the capacity, the compassion or the concern to run health care for the entire population?
4. We do believe that they want a government takeover of 1/5 of the American economy.
5. Many of the Europe governments are failing because unions are demanding more entitlements which is driving them into bankruptcy. This is what is happening to our country. Obamacare is essentially a payback to unions and placing another nail in the economy coffin.
6. According to the Constitution, health care is not a RIGHT. Progressives are trying to destroy our country by instituting rights derived from the USSR constitution. American’s rights come from our Creator and not Congress. See articles 118, 119, 120 and 121 of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic Constitution at
http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/const/36cons04.html
We have to stop the DC madness.Vote in your states primaries, as few people do, so your vote is greatly magnified. I’m doing my best to unseat a “R” that promised to only stay for 2 terms and is running for his fourth. Until term limits are the law we need to insist on “”STATES RIGHTS”" and tell DC to get back in their corner where they belong.
Anything more or less than the Constitution is wrong and DC needs to learn that.!!! It seems that no matter how good a person is when first going there they quickly lose their common sense.
Vote out anyone that’s been in the Senate for more than 2 terms and 3 terms for the house.
SAY NO TO OBAMA’s HEALTHCARE. It is a country killer. I don’t want the good ol’ USA to turn into a socialistic democracy. I know what I’m talking about because I lived it. I came 31 years ago as a young man from a communist country and what the democratic party wants is to turn us completely left. I lived it and saw it destroy my country of birth and it would be horrible if it happen to the land that welcomed my family and gave us refuge. SAY NO TO PELOSI, REED AND OBAMA.
Semper Fi, USMC.
Please do everything you can do to stop this bill, we would like to see a health reform bill passed but a reasonable bill with both parties putting it together.
If this passes the dems will be sorry in november!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please contact your Represenatives in Congress and tell them to vote NO on any Health Care Bill. There needs to be a legal recourse against the tatics and implications of this bill and Reconciliation.
We need more people to get involved, call your senator, congressman. I have spent most of my life against unions. I have watched my friends and coworkers out of work while I as a nonunion worker kept working with higher pay than they were getting. The unions know this, that is why 51% of union workers are in government. You should check out onlinetaxrevolt.com and stop the unions that force our workers and doctors to leave this wonderful country.
HEATH,WE IN NEBO NC ARE EXPECTING YOU TO VOTE NO!!!!! ON OBAMCARE.CAN WE DEPEND ON YOU????
WAKE UP, AMERICA! Does anybody care what is happening with our
country? We’re going down the road of not wanting to take responsibility
for anything any longer. I’m tired of letting our government do whatever they want to, just because we’re too lazy to rock the boat. Well, I’ll tell you, the ones that hate our country aren’t too lazy – and they’re infiltrating every committee, office, and program. Soon we won’t have any rights at all, we’ll all be dictated to and our country – and yes, our world – will be gone forever.
Talk, Talk, Talk, yada, yada, yada. If it’s a known & proven fact that our “Representatives” in Washington are committing criminal acts such as bribery, kickbacks, selling votes, padding their pockets instead of representing the best interests of us, WE THE PEOPLE, etc., then why aren’t they prosecuted & thrown out of office? They are talented career political criminals. Our vote isn’t enough. We end up voting for the lesser of the two evils. Prosecute!… Hold them accountable.
This is an outrage. Why aren’t they arrested & prosecuted? Talking is good but action must follow. If those in authority won’t uphold the law, then perhaps, WE THE PEOPLE should assemble, and enforce our right to a citizen’s arrest for committing these crimes against us.
I’m no lawyer, but surely someone in authority could have the gonads to prosecute the factual & known politicians who are committing these crimes! I’m tired of the constant talking & pontificating, yada, yada, yada.
Power, Control & Money are the priorities of the politician’s issues… Not our best interests. Won’t someone with some backbone & less talk prosecute these well known criminal politicians? Pleeeeeeeeease!