Angie Craig: “I will also add to my statement a letter from NFIB [National Federation of Independent Business], for in that letter are…”

“I will also add to my statement a letter from NFIB [National Federation of Independent Business], for in that letter are several quotes that I think are extremely valuable to this debate. One of those quotes which is important, and I will mention it at this moment, as it relates to what our President has just done and the meaning of that act as it relates to a balance that we have held in labor law now for a good long while. It says: This balance of labor's right to strike with management's right to stay in business using temporary or permanent replacement workers during economic strikes has not been challenged by any President since 1935. Are the working conditions and are the labor conditions of America today so different, have they changed so dramatically since we placed quality labor laws on the books of our country since 1935 that our President would act as he has acted? I simply do not believe that is true. What our President has said by this act is, ``Give in or go out of business.'' No President has said it that way, nor should they. It is unilateral disarmament of employers at the bargaining table. And that has never been public policy and it should never be public policy.”