What Should Be The Next Pro-Union Bill???

[BayCityProgressive]

The Dems have already passed the Employee Free Choice Act and the pro-union amendment to the Homeland Security bill through the house. What should be the next pro-union legislation? What could realistically pass the house? I would like to see the provision of Taft-Hartley that bars sympathy strikes to be repealed..

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Tariffs on Cheap Offshored Goods and Services

Cheap overseas labor is used as a cudgel against workers - they're afraid if they unionize, their jobs will go away. Clinton's legacy of encouraging offshoring (or "free" trade or whatever) needs to be reversed.

[Hand]

2. Ban replacement workers.

I.e., scabs.

[whoneedstickets]

3. A laws that allows workers to organize more easily...

....in franchised companies. The service sector (think fast food, and retail) is an area of job growth that is difficult to outsource but because of a franchised business model it is difficult to organize since each store/outlet/restaurant can be considered a separate 'shop'. Imagine unionized McDonald's!