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Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2021

Floor Speech

Date: March 9, 2021
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Labor Unions Business, Consumers, and Employees

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Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Speaker, I will make four points on this bill.

First of all, under this bill, you can have a vote on unionization within under 15--I am told even 11--days of finding out the vote is coming. You look at our elections. I know in the State of Wisconsin, probably similar, you get over 2\1/2\ months between filing and knowing you are going to have an election and actually the election. It is hard to believe anybody who really cares about the worker would do that.

Secondly, your privacy concerns. You are even giving the addresses of all of the employees to the unions. This is supposedly the party of women. Do you really want to come home at night and have people in your driveway wanting to talk to you about an election?

Third, we are getting rid of the secret ballot. I don't know how anybody who cares about anybody would get rid of the secret ballot.

And, fourth, you have a situation here, when it is unclear whether something right or wrong happened, automatically you go to a union. So you can have a situation here in which the majority of people did not vote for a union, and the government bureaucrat says, automatically, you are unionized.

And one final comment: For people talking about purchasing power, the most recent COVID bill is a strange bill. Your purchasing power is going down.

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