The two major party candidates for Congress in Minnesota?s 2nd Congressional District hold opposing views on how workers should organize.
Republican Rep. John Kline explained his support for H.R. 4343, legislation to outlaw card-check and rely only on contested National Labor Relations Board elections as a means for workers to choose unions. Asked by the Labor Review if he recognized that employer abuses can taint the NLRB election process, he said, ?even if that were true? at the end of the process it?s still a secret ballot.?
?I condemn intimidation from either side in the debate,? he added. ?There are stories both ways of intimidation.?
Kline?s DFL challenger, the AFL-CIO-endorsed Teresa Daly, responded: ?I support the Employee Free Choice Act (H.R. 3619). I believe workers have the right to think for themselves and should be allowed to join a union without disruption from their employers. This bill positively ensures that an already established practice continues without corruption.?
Daly added, ?I find the Secret Ballot Protection Act (H.R. 4343) to be a sneaky attempt to hinder the right to organize? Given the Bush administration?s record on workers? rights and close ties to big business, I am simply skeptical of this bill?s so-called protections.?
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The two major party candidates for Congress in Minnesota?s 2nd Congressional District hold opposing views on how workers should organize.
Republican Rep. John Kline explained his support for H.R. 4343, legislation to outlaw card-check and rely only on contested National Labor Relations Board elections as a means for workers to choose unions. Asked by the Labor Review if he recognized that employer abuses can taint the NLRB election process, he said, ?even if that were true? at the end of the process it?s still a secret ballot.?
?I condemn intimidation from either side in the debate,? he added. ?There are stories both ways of intimidation.?
Kline?s DFL challenger, the AFL-CIO-endorsed Teresa Daly, responded: ?I support the Employee Free Choice Act (H.R. 3619). I believe workers have the right to think for themselves and should be allowed to join a union without disruption from their employers. This bill positively ensures that an already established practice continues without corruption.?
Daly added, ?I find the Secret Ballot Protection Act (H.R. 4343) to be a sneaky attempt to hinder the right to organize? Given the Bush administration?s record on workers? rights and close ties to big business, I am simply skeptical of this bill?s so-called protections.?
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Unions, Radical Right clash over card check organizing