Duncan Faircloth: “I am here today to join the Senator from Georgia in letting the American people know what a costly and dangerous…”

“I am here today to join the Senator from Georgia in letting the American people know what a costly and dangerous paragraph the President of this country has proposed on behalf of the labor unions, its bosses. What I am referring to is the President's Executive order, first announced to great applause by Vice President Gore before a recent gathering of union bosses. It would force all contractors doing business with the Federal Government to be unionized. To be specific, Clinton has issued an Executive order in draft form--he hasn't issued the order--which would require that anybody that sells goods to the Federal Government become a party to a labor agreement--in plain language, become a unionized closed-shop company. These agreements are nothing more than a clever device proposed and written by the union bosses that all contractors would have to be unionized if you do business with the Federal Government. Now, this is a union-only mandate for anyone who sells to the Federal Government. But that isn't as far as it goes--not by a long way. These agreements would force the contractor to have a union, but, in turn, it would force anybody he buys from to have a union. Anybody that sold him a pencil would have to be a union contractor, if it were going to be used in Government business. So 13 million people, as Senator Gramm said, would be forced to join unions.”