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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRon Paul Would Allow ‘Open Season’ on Union Organizers
Ron Paul Would Allow Open Season on Union Organizers
By Mike Elk
January 4, 2012
It appears Paul would actually like to take away a key protection Americans currently enjoy at work. He supports ending a provision of the National Labor Relations Act that makes it illegal for employers to fire workers based on their support of unions.
Several times between 2001 and 2009, Ron Paul sponsored the Truth in Employment Act, legislation that would amend the National Labor Relations Act to allow employers to fire pro-union workers (sometimes called salts) who join a workplace with the intent of unionizing it. Paul's office did not return phone calls from In These Times about the candidate's support for this piece of legislation.
UE Political Action Director Chris Townsend, however, says that if passed, the Truth in Employment Act would lead to open season on workers hoping to organize a union. The legislation "would allow employers to refuse to hire, or even to fire, any worker suspected ofor declared by the boss to be -- a union supporter. No worker will be safe if employers are given this license to discriminate on the basis of ones beliefs about unions or anything else, Townsend says.
While Paul claims he is for individual liberty, his support for the Truth in Employment Act shows that when its comes to the workplace, an employer's liberty trumps that of a worker.
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Ron Paul Would Allow ‘Open Season’ on Union Organizers (Original Post)
Better Believe It
Jan 2012
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provis99
(13,062 posts)1. so much for the right of freedom of association.
for a guy who claims to be libertarian, he sure does hate constitutional rights.
librechik
(30,674 posts)2. so Ron Paul "Freedom Lover" hates democracy in the workplace
Of course! another admission of his devotion to the moneyed interests rather than the common man. What a hypcrite.
Old and In the Way
(37,540 posts)3. Ron simply wants to level the playing field.
Pitting the meager resources of the individual against the resources of a corporation. His idea of individual liberty is the freedom to become an indentured servant within the corporate system.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)4. Funny how Paul always seems to side with the MONEY.
Coporatist to the core; Libertarian, my ass.
His ideas of 'Freedom' only extends to those with MONEY.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)5. Paul sides with money.