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National Grassroots Lobby Urges Senate to Vote Down Union Privileges In Homeland Security Bill
Union officials cynically seek power at expense of national security
FOR RELEASE: September 9, 2002
Washington, DC (September 9, 2002) – On behalf of its 2.2 million members, the National Right to Work Committee® today urged each member of the United States Senate to back President Bush in opposing the current version of the Homeland Security Bill (S. 2452) since it places the demands of union officials ahead of national security.
The current Senate version of the bill, introduced by Senator Joseph Lieberman (D), would hand union officials increased monopoly bargaining privileges over federal employees in the proposed Department of Homeland Security. As a result, the President and Secretary would be unable to directly manage the Department, and instead the Bush administration would be required to get union officials’ permission before implementing personnel decisions.
Union officials typically exercise their monopoly bargaining power to protect incompetence while holding back the best and most productive employees. The Senate legislation hands union officials the power not only to dictate policy in the workplace but also to interfere with the President’s ability to foster an efficient, qualified workforce. This is potentially damaging to efforts to improve national security.
“The Senate bill ties the President’s hands and puts the demands of union bosses ahead of national security,” said Mark Mix, Vice President of the National Right to Work Committee®. “As history has shown, Big Labor uses the dangers of wartime crisis as leverage to increase their forced unionism stranglehold over workers and taxpayers. Neither President Bush nor members of Congress should tolerate this.”
The Senate will consider an amendment that would strike the union special privileges contained in the legislation now under consideration on the Senate floor.
The National Right to Work Committee® urges all members of the U.S. Senate to oppose S. 2452 unless the President’s authority to exempt vital employees from union monopoly bargaining is protected in the bill.
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