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Kennedy and Union Bosses Attempt to Sneak Monopoly Bargaining Bill through Senate
Shameless union boss power grab temporarily halted
FOR RELEASE: September 21, 2001
WASHINGTON, D.C.(September 21, 2001)- Attempting to use our national crisis as cover, at 6:30pm on Wednesday night, in a mostly deserted Senate chamber, Big Labor ally Ted Kennedy brazenly tried to sneak through S. 952, the so-called "Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act."
This is a bill union officials openly acknowledge is the "largest expansion of labor {union} power Congress has considered in decades."
The so-called "Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act" would create a new federal agency to force states and local governments to give Big Labor bosses monopoly bargaining power over their police, firefighters, county paramedic, and other public-safety officers.
This federally imposed union monopoly bargaining would strip public-safety officers of their freedom and would soak state and local taxpayers for hundreds of millions of dollars annually in increased costs.
The majority of states have resisted Big Labor and currently don't force public service officers to join a union just to get or keep a job.
But S. 952 would make the public safety of all 50 states Big Labor controlled.
Despite the scope of this union boss power grab, Sen. Kennedy attempted to ram it through the Senate Wednesday night with no vote and no debate by calling for passage by unanimous consent in a near-empty chamber.
Fortunately, at least one Senator was available to object, thus foiling Sen. Kennedy's plan.
Senator Kennedy didn't begin this obscene exploitation of our national crisis on that day though.
Just two days after the terrorist attacks, while smoke was still billowing out of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Kennedy quietly rammed S.952 through his Senate Health Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, again, without so much as a recorded vote.
The 2.2 million member National Right to Work Committee® is mobilizing a grassroots campaign to fight this bill in the Senate and to urge President Bush to veto it if Congress sends it to him.