William F. Goodling: “This is not legislation that takes a step backward, as some people mention. As a matter of fact, it is an attempt to…”

“This is not legislation that takes a step backward, as some people mention. As a matter of fact, it is an attempt to move into the 21st century. As I indicated before, unless we can get labor and management to move into the 21st century, there is very little hope for us to be competitive with the rest of the world. It is time we understand it is the 21st century, not the 1930s when the labor laws were written, not the 1930s when we talked about men only in the workforce, when we talked about only a manufacturing economy. It is the 21st century. Someone over there said, 'Why would you seek employment to harm the company? No one would ever do anything like that.' Mr. Chairman, that is what this legislation is about, because that is exactly what is happening.”