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Asa Hutchinson: Once again, we get this impression that has been presented this morning that somehow these are legitimate organizing…

On the recordSeptember 14, 1998
Once again, we get this impression that has been presented this morning that somehow these are legitimate organizing efforts. Yet, I have read quotation after quotation from the IBEW and other unions' own organizing manuals that make it very clear that the goal is, in fact, to economically destroy the company and the employer. So I will throw one more in. This is the IBEW Organizing News Letter, volume No. 1, March 1995, on page 4: These companies know that when they are targeted with stripping, salting, and market recovery funds, it is only a matter of time before their foundations begin to crumble. The NLRB charges the attorney fees, and the loss of employees can lead to an unprofitable business. That is what they want. If they can't organize, they destroy them economically. But it not only destroys them economically, it costs the taxpayers, because we are paying the NLRB attorneys, and it ruins the reputation of good, hard-working Americans who have invested their lives in building businesses. I can't think of anything more tragic than to spend your life building a business-- spending 30 years out there starting as a mom-and-pop operation and gradually adding employees, providing a good place of employment for workers--and then, through this pernicious tactic, see your business destroyed and have to close your doors, to see those jobs lost, and to say that somehow this is antiworker. I will tell you what is antiworker.
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Asa Hutchinson
Arkansas

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Addressing the impact of union organizing tactics on businesses and their owners.

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