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Returning Freedom To American Workers

Date: Jan. 24, 2007
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Employment and Affirmative Action Labor Unions


RETURNING FREEDOM TO AMERICAN WORKERS -- (House of Representatives - January 24, 2007)

Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, today I will reintroduce the National Right to Work Act. This bill seeks to end compulsory union dues and return to American workers their unalienable freedom of choice.

As ranking member of the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, this is an issue with which I am actively involved. No American should be forced to pay union dues to get or keep a job. Ironically, even proponents of compulsory unionism acknowledge that coercion is the central pillar of our current Federal labor law.

By simply repealing certain provisions of the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act, we can abolish forced union dues.

I am pleased to introduce this bill with 51 of our colleagues, and I urge you to join us in increasing the freedom and prosperity of American workers.

In conclusion, God bless our troops, and we will never forget September 11.

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