July 13, 2006
Workers' Rights Quashed Under Bush
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT
The National Labor Relations Board has made significant rollbacks to workers' rights and protections, according to a report released today by Rep. George Miller, the leading Democrat on the House Education and Workforce Committee. Millions of workers have lost or are facing the loss of their right to organize in unions and to collectively bargain.
“President Bush has filled the NLRB with anti-union members who have made it increasingly more difficult for workers to organize a labor union. They have used double standards, petty rationales, and unfair, inconsistent rulings to give employers more power over workers,” Miller said.
"Collective bargaining gives workers a real voice on the job, improves wages and living standards for working families and their communities, and is central to building and maintaining a strong middle class," said DNC Chairman Howard Dean. "It is no accident that as Bush Republicans have chipped away at workers' bargaining rights, wages have stagnated, health care and pension coverage has declined, and income inequality has exploded."
Click here to read the report (PDF).
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT