Political Quotes

“I hope we can clarify what the issues are. I think I showed up in the wrong room. We are arguing about things that have nothing to do with the legislation that we have before us, and we are being accused of union bashing and all that; and I hear my colleagues say that a union member can no longer be engaged in organizing, that there is no ability to be involved in collective bargaining and things of this sort. All that we are trying to clarify here, while keeping in complete accord with the Supreme Court decision in Town and Country where it was made very clear that an employer cannot discriminate against any applicant on the basis of the fact that he may be affiliated with a union or that he may even be a paid employee of a union. The Supreme Court said there is not inherently a conflict. Now, there could be a conflict, but not inherently a conflict. So all we are trying to do, and I think almost every reasonable person would say that, however, where we have an applicant where it can be said that the primary reason that he is there is not because he wants to really go to work for that employer; the primary reason he is there is because he wants to further the interests of another employer. Now, that is all we are trying to say.…”