On the recordFebruary 6, 2020
The biggest problem with our Federal labor laws today is inadequate protection of workers' rights within the labor organizations that represent them. This amendment would make that problem worse. Workers should not be forced into a union with which they do not wish to associate. The existing process for workers to remove a union is too limited and burdensome as it is. Workers face tremendous one-sided barriers to a decertification election that they do not face in a certification election. Worse, more than 90 percent of workers represented by a union today have never voted for that union to represent them. Let me repeat that. More than 90 percent of workers represented by a union today have never voted for that union to represent them. Democrats oppose legislation that would allow workers to vote periodically on the union in their workplace, and this amendment would make it even more difficult for workers to have an opportunity to vote, even after clearing all of the existing unnecessary hurdles. This amendment would make the PRO Act even more antiworker than it already is. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
