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By
Congreaunaii James T.
BroyfaUI
Last week, the House of
R^iresentatlves shocked
the majority leadership
Conunon Site Picket Bill Unwise Legislation
and leaders of organised
labor by defeating the
highly controversial com
mon site picketing bill. The
vote was a surprising 217 to
200 set-back for legislation
which had been listed as
organized labor’s number
one legislative objective. I
Joined with those who
voted to defeat this unwise
piece of legislation..
The common site
picketing blU, If passed,
would have allowed a
single building trade union
to close down an entire
construction site If the
union had a dispute with
only one subcontractor.
For example, carpenters
who had a dispute with one
of the construction
project's subcontractors
could picket the construc
tion site and prevent
plumbers, electricians and
bricklayers from working.
In 1947 the Taft-Hartley
Act was passed speci
fically prohibiting
secondary boycotting, that
Is, strikes or work stop
pages with the goal of
forcing any person to cease
doing buitoess with any
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other peraon. In 1919, the
Supreme Cburt recognized
the relationship between a
general contractor and a
Bubcontractor at a con
struction alte and said the
Taft-Hartley law pro
hibiting secondary boy
cotts was directly ap
plicable to each sltuatloiu.
Ever since then, leglala-
tk>n has been offered In
each Congreas to exempt
cenatructlon trades from
the requirements of thla
law.
This legislation would
have also allowed
unionized workers to
picket an entire conatruc-
tlon alte simply because
one of the aubcontractora
waa using non-union labor.
The result would have been
that few contractors would
run the risk of hiring a
subcontractor who used
non-union labor. The
contractor would Justi
fiably be afraid that If he
did so, the total construc
tion alte could be closed
down. The effect would
therefore be that non-union
construction workers
would be unable to find
work simply because they
chose not to Join a union.
I believe every worker
has the right to Join a union
and be represented con
tract negotlatlona by the
union If he or she choosea
to. I also believe that every
woricer haa the right not to
Join a union. No American
worker should have to fear
being unable to find a Job,
Just because he or she
chooaea not to become a
member of a union.
Broad public support for
common site picketing
leglalatlon haa been
noticeable absent this
year. Even rank and file
construction union
members showed little
enttiualaam for thla bill.
The support for thla
legislation came almoat
solely from certain
national union leaders
wheae obvious goal waa to
compel woricera to Join
unions against their wills.
Thla bill would have
provided no wage In-
creaaea or fringe benefits
for rank and file union
members, Jiut more power
ftr union bosses.
In March of this year,
the Influential and
nationally-known Roper
polling organization con
ducted a nationwide poll
asking a random sampling
of the American public
whether or not a alngle
union should be able to
close down a construction
site. The poll results
showed that 77 percent of
the American people were
against the concept of this
bill. Despite thla strong
public sentiment, the
liberal majority leaderahlp
worked tirelessly to pass
the bill, over the objectlona
of thoae of us In the
minority and those more
conservative membera of
the majority party.
President Carter had
made It clear to labor
leaders during hla cam
paign that he would sign
thla bill If Congress passed
it. Last year, similar
legislation narrowly
paaaed the Congress, but
President Ford vetoed It.
President Carter’s
Secretary of Labor, Ray
Marahall, had teatlfled In
favor of the bill. However,
deeplte mild Ad-
mtnlatratlon support and
heavy union lobbying a
majority In Congreas
reaponded to the public
wUl and rejected this
unwise leglelatlon.
I believe the defeat of
thla bill la a clear victory
for the American worker
and consumer. It was a
victory against com
pulsory unionism and
runaway Infiatlan In the
conetnictlon Industry. But
meet at all. It was a ringing
defeat for the majority
leadership In Congress,
which had tried once
again, as bi the case at the
Congressional pay in
crease, to Ignore the wUl of
the American people.
Last Wednesday night,
the House of Repreaan-
taUvee reatored a lot of
people a’ confldenea In
representative govern
ment
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