Political Quotes

“Madam President, first of all, I thank my colleague from Georgia for allowing me to come over to speak on this issue, and I rise to concur with the resolution introduced by my friend and my colleague, Senator Isakson. For more than 75 years, our labor laws governing airline and railway employees have been upheld under both Democratic and Republican administrations and in two Supreme Court decisions. Recently, however, the National Mediation Board acted unilaterally to change a longstanding statute without seeking the consent of Congress. Unfortunately, this change is based more on politics than on the merits of the law. Historically, if you had 100 employees who wanted to vote to form a union, you would need a majority of those employees--or 51--to vote in favor of unionizing. Now, in accordance with the new rule change from the National Mediation Board, if 10 members choose to vote on whether to organize, a majority of 6 members voting yes would bring all 100 members under union control. That is not the way the law was ever intended to operate, and it should not be changed by an arbitrary action on the part of this Board. Not only would a minority of workers have a tremendous influence over other employees in such a workplace, but when a union is formed, employees would not have the same right to decertify the union under the new minority rule.…”