John Culberson: “This is a straightforward vote to the House about whether or not we will, on behalf of American taxpayers, vote to…”

“This is a straightforward vote to the House about whether or not we will, on behalf of American taxpayers, vote to impose union collective bargaining requirements on any private company doing business with the Federal Government. The Executive order that our bill does not fund and the amendment attempts to strike, language in our bill which does not fund this Executive order, the Executive order says that ``in awarding any contract in connection with a large-scale construction project, the administration may require the use of a project labor agreement.'' {time} 1430 A project labor agreement, under the Executive order's own definition, means a pre-hire collective bargaining agreement with one or more labor organizations. So the Obama administration through this Executive order is attempting to unionize any private company in America that wants to do business with the Federal Government. That's just an outrage. Again, in looking at a Wall Street Journal editorial from April 14 of 2010, it reiterates data that is widely available and that has been repeatedly verified: that only about 15 percent of the Nation's construction workers are unionized. So from now on, under this Executive order, the other 85 percent of America's construction workers will have to give up the opportunity to work on a Federal project, or not be unionized.…”