Experienced constitutional lawyer: Congressionally-imposed monopoly bargaining for state and local government infringes on workers\u2019 rights<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p>\nWashington, D.C. (June 26, 2019)<\/strong> \u2013 Today, National Right to Work Foundation staff attorney William Messenger will testify before the House Committee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, and urge the body to reject legislative proposals that would install monopoly bargaining across all states for public sector workers. Messenger\u2019s testimony falls approximately one year after the Supreme Court issued its decision in the landmark Janus v. AFSCME<\/i> case, which Messenger successfully argued for Illinois public employee Mark Janus.<\/p>\nMessenger\u2019s testimony exposes the various tactics that union bosses use to shore up their grip on power, but identifies monopoly bargaining \u2013 which forces employees under union officials\u2019 representation even against their will \u2013 as at the core of Big Labor\u2019s coercive powers. Messenger\u2019s written testimony explained why those powers are particularly offensive in the government sector:<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the private sector, negotiations between an employer and a monopoly bargaining representative concern issues that affect that employer and its employees. In the public sector, negotiations between government officials and union representatives concern political issues that affect third-parties: individual citizens\u2026In state after state where unions have gained monopoly bargaining powers in the public sector, costs skyrocket while quality of service declines. But monopoly bargaining allows unions to become the most powerful force in state politics and to pour millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours into electing public officials, allowing unions to sit on both sides of the negotiating table.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Messenger instead praises legislation like the National Right to Work Act (NRTWA), which would reorient public and private sector labor law to protect the individual freedom of workers. Messenger emphasizes in his testimony that \u201crank-and-file workers want Congress to protect them from Big Labor, not to give union officials even more power to control their lives and paychecks.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo American worker should be forced to surrender their workplace voice to a private organization,\u201d observed National Right to Work Foundation President Mark Mix. \u201cThe endgame of the anti-worker legislation that is currently being considered by the House of Representatives is clear: granting Big Labor control over public policy at all levels of government to the detriment of taxpayers, voters and the freedoms of the very workers government union bosses claim to represent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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