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Asa Hutchinson: we likewise have scores of letters that have been submitted for the Record--small companies that are being destroyed by…

On the recordSeptember 14, 1998
we likewise have scores of letters that have been submitted for the Record--small companies that are being destroyed by the terrible practice of salts. We have literally tens of thousands of names that have come in on petitions saying please pass something to protect small employers. The Senator from Massachusetts has questioned the logic. Why would somebody go in to destroy a company? Why not organize the company? That is the whole point. These are companies that have not been willing to organize, or they could not get the support among the employees of that company to organize. So in desperation they go in not to organize, not to legitimately persuade employees to join a union and to collectively bargain, but to economically ruin and devastate the viability of a small company. Why are we compelling employers to hire people who do not want to work but want to destroy their company? Imagine that salt who comes home at the end of the day, hired by the labor union to go in and economically destroy by filing frivolous complaints, to file OSHA complaints, or cause OSHA complaints, at the end of the day facing their wife who says, ``Honey, how did your day go?'' ``My day went great. I went out and helped to destroy the livelihood of my employer''--the American dream of what he has worked for for a lifetime. Imagine the employer going home at the end of the day, a small businessman, and his spouse says, ``How did your day go?'' ``Oh, great.…
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Asa Hutchinson
Arkansas

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Discussing the impact of union practices on small businesses.

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