Andrea Joy Campbell: “Mr. Chairman, let us be very clear. This is not a unionization bill. My friend and colleague the gentleman from…”

“Mr. Chairman, let us be very clear. This is not a unionization bill. My friend and colleague the gentleman from California (Mr. Thomas) misperceives the bill. First of all, the bill itself has explicitly in it section 2(e), a prohibition on boycott. Secondly, the question about putting them under the NLRA and an NLRB is appropriate only if we were creating exclusive bargaining units. That is to say that the doctors would have no one else to represent them. We are not doing that. We are simply removing the effect of a Supreme Court opinion, which, 84 years after the passage of the Sherman Act, in my judgment, erroneously applied antitrust to what is a profession. And so, we do not need the National Labor Relations Act because we are not creating exclusive bargaining units. Furthermore, the National Labor Relations Board does not investigate the content of contracts. It never does. It exists merely to create the fair election process to determine the sole exclusive bargaining agent. Since we do not have an exclusive bargaining agent, there is no need for the labor model.”