Examiner Editorial: A workers' rights bill that almost everyone likes --- except Big Labor

By Editorial Writer | NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Sen. Orrin Hatch has been defending employee rights since he was first elected in 1976. As a freshman senator, the Utah Republican helped lead the filibuster that defeated the Labor Law Reform Act, which would have effectively eliminated secret ballot elections. Nearly four decades later, he's still on the job defending individual rights in the workplace, now by introducing the Employee Rights Act (ERA), co-sponsored by Tennessee Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander.

The Hatch-Alexander ERA is the first serious attempt by congressional Republicans since the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 to rebalance the workplace to favor the individual worker instead of either management or unions. The measure guarantees secret ballots in workplace representation elections, something that Big Labor has for years sought to abolish, and requires unions to be periodically re-certified by a majority secret ballot vote……To Read More…..