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MICKEY KAUS: “Card Check” Not as Bad as Thought! It’s Worse. “That seems like a parody of liberal …
Instapundit —
... MICKEY KAUS: “Card Check” Not as Bad as Thought! It’s Worse. “That seems like a parody of liberal Washington meddling. It’s one thing for employer and union to have to abide by the decision of a mutually selected third party. It’s another to have a strange bureaucrat from D.C. come and tell everyone how to run things–not just setting a minimum wage but setting wages and job categories up and down the hierarchy.” ...
Card Check: It's Worse Than You Thought
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days —
So sayeth Mickey Kaus , who points out that the legislation appears to allow federal arbitrators to impose a two-year contract in the event that a newly unionized employer cannot come to an agreement with a new union. This will include "freezing in place hierarchies and job categories both across industries and within individual firms." How anyone expects the economy to thrive and prosper when government is empowered to swoop down on individual businesses, tell them that they have to abide by a certain agreement with a union and take away the business owners' abilities to promote, demote, and set up other elements of the hierarchical structure within the company is, of course, anyone's ...
Kaus: “‘Card Check’ Not as Bad as Thought! It’s Worse”
Patterico's Pontifications —
Mickey Kaus:
In the “card check” bill, if a newly unionized employer can’t reach an agreement with the new union, an arbitrator will step in and impose a two-year contract. I thought Jennifer Rubin must be wrong when she said that this arbitrator would be a government employee:
That’s what we are talking about here: a government official sent into a private workplace to order, in the absence of a voluntary agreement between labor and management, the employer to abide by a government-dictated contract. . . .
That seems like a parody of liberal Washington meddling. It’s one thing for employer and ...
Card Check: It’s Worse Than You Thought
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
So sayeth Mickey Kaus, who points out that the legislation appears to allow federal arbitrators to impose a two-year contract in the event that a newly unionized employer cannot come to an agreement with a new union. This will include “freezing in place hierarchies and job categories both across industries and within individual firms.”
How anyone expects the economy to thrive and prosper when government is empowered to swoop down on individual businesses, tell them that they have to abide by a certain agreement with a union and take away the business owners’ abilities to promote, demote, and set up other elements of the hierarchical structure within the company is, ...
Larwyn's Link Kerplosion: "Just whose side is he on?"
Doug Ross @ Journal —
Have a great link you'd like me to review? Drop me an email! [image] The Obama plan: massive tax hikes : Morrissey Just whose side is he on? : Spectator (Phillips) "My new gun" : Sipsey St. Regulars 'Truth Commission' a go : Ace Obama's Intelligence Blunder : WaPo (Chait) Another day, another scandal from Team Obama : Surber Obama's New 'Urban Czar' Lined His Pockets With Payoffs : JWF Where we're headed : Commonsense & Wonder Hollywood's first hit movie about Iraq : Prairie Message to the world from Hamas : YouTube Marines respond to Bush and Obama : PforA Obama: Narcissist or Merely ...
Reid: Without GOP Help, Card Check Could Take a While
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... The problem is that every part of this bill is terrible. While attention has been focused on the high-profile elimination of the secret ballot for union organizing, the bill also puts federal arbiters in charge of all aspects of some labor deals. Mickey Kaus has done a great job of laying out just how bad it may be. It’s no stretch to say that Card Check would put a significant chunk of the economy under government control. ...
March 21 roundup
Overlawyered —
... [ABA Journal]
ACORN helping with the Census? Based on their voter work, we can be sure they’ll give it that 110% effort [Jammie Wearing Fool]
To protect the public, why do you ask? Cook County, Ill. sheriff engages in “constant surveillance of Craigslist’s erotic services” [Patrick at Popehat]
Imposed-contract provisions mean that Employee Free Choice Act is “not as bad as thought. It’s worse!” [Kaus]
West Virginia lawmaker proud of introducing ban-Barbie bill: “If I’ve ...
Harkin Seeks Card Check Compromise
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... There’s been talk for weeks that Big Labor might be willing to drop the provision eliminating the secret ballot for union organizing, and retain the language allowing government mediators to dictate collective bargaining agreements. Is this the compromise that Harkin will pitch to Specter and others? If anything, this part of the bill is worse than the union organizing portion, for reasons that Mickey Kaus laid out very well. Now that even Tom Harkin is throwing in the towel on the original bill (or would have us believe that he is), we need to educate Americans about the ...
