Asa Hutchinson: “while I continue to have the floor, I just want to point to this chart, which is an editorial that I think very well…”

“while I continue to have the floor, I just want to point to this chart, which is an editorial that I think very well frames the issue that confronts the Senate today in this cloture motion. It is entitled ``Harassing Job Providers.'' It appeared recently in the Detroit News. I think, once again, it frames this issue quite well. I will read part of it. One form of the tactic is called ``salting'' in which union agents take a job at a nonunion firm and attempt to organize workers. They also file endless and often frivolous claims of labor law violations against the companies. Another tactic is simply to file the claims on behalf of other workers, whether or not the workers are actually aggrieved. These tactics, as well as ``salting,'' are known as corporate campaigns and are designed to give unions more leverage when they are at a low ebb. Only 10 percent of private sector workers are in unions. One prounion handbook quoted by Investors Business Daily observes that ``Every law or regulation is a potential net in which management can be snared and entangled. I think they rightly conclude that: Regulations ought to be about protecting people, not ``ensnaring and entangling'' anyone.”