Unions Ready to Pounce on 111th Congress
Posted on January 11, 2009
-By Warner Todd Huston
Unions gave many millions of dollars to elect Democrats and Barack Obama last November. Now they want payback. And, at least according to The New York Times, it is to begin with a bang.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D,CA) is planning an early push of two pay “discrimination” bills ASAP.
Last year, President George W. Bush threatened to veto both the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which would overturn a 2007 Supreme Court decision making it more difficult to sue over past pay discrimination, and the Paycheck Fairness Act, which closes loopholes allowing employers to get around the 1963 law requiring equal pay for equal work.
As in all things Democratic Party, the Ledbatter Act was based on the lie that this Ledbetter woman was discriminated against. Ledbetter had every opportunity under the law for redress by waited too long to take her former employer to court, exceeding her 180 day complaint period. But, who needs rules, eh?
Along with these two bills, Congressional Democrats are going to also try to bring the woefully misnamed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) to the table. This act is notorious for taking away the secret ballot from employees all across the country.
In any case, the new Democratic majority will try its best to undermine labor law and give as many plumbs to big labor as it can.
Get ready to fight.
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Statutes prohibiting private discrimination at the federal level violate: 1) the Constitution (Congress has no authority to do this), 2) natural law (people have a moral right to associate or not to associate with their fellow human beings and withholding oneself does not violate anyone’s rights) and 3) the laws of economics (they reduce the incentives to hire and especially to promote women and minorities, thereby helping to create a glass ceiling).
The same problems apply to labor union laws. The labor statutes that we have allow unions to force their way on to other people’s private property and impose conditions on them against their will. This is called trespass and is the fundamental reason that labor unionism is immoral and indefensible. In a free society (which we do not have and under corrupt Democratic Party rule it will get even worse), people are free to associate with whomever they wish and to keep unions off their property. These basic rights will be even more severely violated in the future.
Wow, you’re missing the point. She filed when she found out that she was being discriminated against. The discrimination had been happening for years prior to her knowing. All a company has to do under current laws to take advantage of someone is to hide discrimination for 180 days after starting the discriminatory policy then they are free and clear. Ledbetter didn’t wait too long, she didn’t have the opportunity, she wasn’t aware of it until “it was too late” under current laws. Imagine if someone stole all your money from your bank account and there was a statute of limitation of 30 days on it so you didn’t find out that it was stolen until you received a statement 31 days from the theft. Wouldn’t you think that statute of limitation is ridiculous? Same idea…