House Republicans Approve Bill to Protect Illegal Job Outsourcers

[Donnachaidh]

http://democrats.edworkforce.house.gov/press-release/house-republicans-approve-bill-protect-illegal-job-outsourcers#.TncsrF5_yQw.facebook

WASHINGTON – The House approved a special interest bill today that would make it easier for corporations to ship jobs overseas in retaliation against American workers for exercising their fundamental labor rights.

The bill, dubbed the GOP’s Outsourcers’ Bill of Rights (H.R. 2587), would remove the only meaningful legal remedy available to workers if a company illegally moves operations or eliminates work because workers engage in protected activities like forming a union or collective bargaining.

“The Republican bill sends a message to employers to retaliate against employees who may demand a piece of the American dream,” said Rep. George Miller (D-CA), the senior Democrat of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. “We should be working to create jobs, not send American jobs overseas. We should be working to strengthen the middle class, not tear it down. We should be working together to send the message that, during these most difficult economic times, Congress is on the side of the middle class.”

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Under the Republican bill, if a company closes an entire U.S. plant or part of a U.S. plant and moved the work to China because the U.S. employees organized a union, the National Labor Relations Board would no longer have the power to order the work to be kept in or returned to the U.S.

More at the link --

[dkf]

1. So it's only illegal when it's done in retaliation for union organizing?

Isn't that kind of messed up?

[DainBramaged]

2. And the prick right-wing lurkers have put this into negative recs already

shame

[madrchsod]

3. republicans are so stupid it hurts...

all a company has to do is recognize the union ,close the next day,and move production to china.

funny how the republicans decry big government then use it for their political aims.

[Historic NY]

4. The Republican Job Creators at it again...creating jobs in China.

[Scuba]

5. K&R