Burgess Owens: “this is not a fair and balanced bill. This is a bill filled with dirty tricks. The tricks are pretty obvious. This bill…”

“this is not a fair and balanced bill. This is a bill filled with dirty tricks. The tricks are pretty obvious. This bill to restrict workers from organizing is radical and extreme. The bill is part of a larger plot to create a separate America for working families and their representatives. We want workers to abide by rules that we are not making for anybody else. We do not require loyalty oaths for any other category of employees. Only the workers are required; middle management will not be required and technicians will not be required to take loyalty oaths. If the bill did that, of course, we would place businesses at a great disadvantage. Mr. Chairman, as I said before, if Bill Gates of Microsoft required that every young person coming into his company must take a loyalty oath that they are there to be 'bona fide'; They are never going to be entrepreneurs on their own; they are not going to walk away with certain secrets; they are forever loyal to the company; then he would destroy his own company. Mr. Chairman, this bill is just one of about 10 more bills that we can expect which constitute a battery of assaults in the 105th Congress on working families. It is a renewal of the assaults that took place in the 104th Congress. Labor unions have been good for America. The Republican attack is violating a commonsense bond, a commonsense covenant with the larger society.…”