Virginia Foxx: “My colleague and I agree that workers should be protected. There is absolutely no disagreement between Democrats and…”

“My colleague and I agree that workers should be protected. There is absolutely no disagreement between Democrats and Republicans on that, but we believe that the existing law is sufficient both for protecting the right to organize as well as protecting workers. Democrats bemoan attacks on the right to organize, but the right to organize has not changed in more than 70 years. Unions have simply abandoned their stated purpose of organizing workers and are trying to take a shortcut through the Congress. NLRB data shows that the number of representation petitions filed by unions with the NLRB fell from 5,000 in 1997 to fewer than 1,600 in fiscal year 2018, the fewest in over 75 years. Let me repeat that. The number of representation petitions filed by unions with the NLRB fell from 5,000 in 1997 to fewer than 1,600 in fiscal year 2018, the fewest in over 75 years. In fiscal year 2018, there were more than 110 million private-sector employees available for organizing under the National Labor Relations Act, but the number of employees who actually petitioned for union representation was just 73,000. That means that unions sought to represent less than one one-tenth of 1 percent of potential new members in this country in fiscal year 2018, yet Democrats blame falling unionization on conservatives.…”