David Roe

The NLRB needs to leave the joint employer standard as it is.

Essentially the new rule would turn franchisees from small business owners into managers.

The new joint employer standard by the NLRB has major implications for every small business community across the country.

I want to thank Chairman Roe, and especially thank my colleague, Congressman Rick Allen, from the Twelfth District here in Georgia for being here as well and making that effort to come down.

The NLRB is again doing the bidding of Big Labor by making it easier to organize franchise workers - no matter the cost to working families and job creators.

This is the same federal agency that tried to tell Boeing they couldn't open a plant in Charleston, South Carolina, threatening thousands of good paying jobs.

The Board is bending to the will of the union bosses who want to grow the ranks of dues-paying members.

It is a privilege to live in this great country, and we would not be able to live in this country if it were not for veterans like Colonel Carey.

This entrepreneurial free spirit that we have produced more goods and services.

If it is not broke, do not fix it.

This NLRB is the most activist NLRB in the history since 1935 when it first came into being.

Why in the world would we give that up? I was elected by a secret ballot.

In America you can do that if you want to do that.

It can turn on a dime.

I think the person who signs my paycheck is my employer. In my case it is me.

I think one of the things in the joint employer model that they are looking at was just rebutted by both Colonel Carey and Mr. Holmes.

I hear people who went out, took the risk, and invested their life savings into a business now to maybe have it taken away from them by not five, but three unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.

Expanding the definition of 'joint employer' increases the liability of doing business, changes the franchisor-franchisee relationship.

It truly boggles my mind that we are even talking about redefining a joint employer relationship in the franchise industry.

The last thing we need is an unelected and unaccountable board of bureaucrats to make it more difficult to pursue the American Dream.

These small businesses, which are independently owned and operated, have helped create jobs and allowed countless individuals to realize the dream of owning their own business.

I am happy to be here, and I am thankful for the opportunity to get out of Washington and to hear directly from you about an issue that could have significant consequences for a lot of people in Alabama and across this country.

Card check. We have a bill out there, the Secret Ballot Protection Act.

This current NLRB, for the record, has pushed ambush elections.

I found it absolutely amazing that Planned Parenthood could complain about a woman having an ultrasound before she terminates her pregnancy, and then uses an ultrasound so they can harvest body parts to be sold for fetal tissue.