Mike Levin: “I hope the gentleman from Illinois will listen, because his effort to make this Title I benign is very misguided. I want…”

“I hope the gentleman from Illinois will listen, because his effort to make this Title I benign is very misguided. I want to tell him specifically why he is wrong. By the way, this has nothing to do only with small employers. Title I affects all employers. So do not wrap small employers around Title I, and do not say it applies only to paid union organizers. This applies to any employee, any prospective employee, any person. And here is what it says. The person comes up, wants a job. This gives the right to the employer to read or try to guess his or her intent. And then if the employer decides what the primary purpose is, it is very clear from their own majority report who has the burden of proof, it is the NLRB, where a charge has been filed that has to show as part of its prima facie case that the employer was wrong.”