>Ergonomics standards? That's a nice little bonbon.
"little bonbon"-- tell that to the folks crippled by RSI and other workplace injuries.
>"Cesar Chavez Act" submitted at the pinnacle of Gingrichian reaction?
>That's an intention sop
>to labor, which everybody knew the DP would not lift a genuine finger to
>push.
What the hell are you talking about? It was passed in the House in June of 1993 with all but 5 Democrats in support, but every Republican voting No. http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1993/roll221.xml
It was one of the first bills passed in the House by Democrats after the Clinton victory. It then was repeatedly filibustered in the Senate, despite 53 Democrats voting for passage. And again, not a single GOPer voted for passage. See the final roll call vote: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=103&session=2&vote=00189
What the f--- do you want? You had majorities in each chamber vote for passage with a President willing to sign it, but the united GOP opposition defeated it.
Why the hell aren't you out fighting Republicans with every breath? They are the enemy, yet people on this list spend most of their time complaining about the Dems.
You want labor law reform? Elect 60 Democrats to the Senate.
-- Nathan Newman
-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Doug Henwood Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 9:10 AM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] An Anti-Labor Day
Nathan Newman wrote:
>Fine, so when are they going to vote for some *pro*labor legislation?
>
>2002 Supported Homeland Security law with union protection of government
>workers. Bill filibustered by GOP.
>
>2001 Dems overwhelmingly voted to sustain Clinton's ergonomics standards,
>but lost to vote by GOP. See http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2001/roll033.xml
>
>1994 Cesar Chavez Act to ban replacement workers. Filibustered by GOP.
>
>1978 Omnibus labor law reform bill overwhelmingly supported by Dems;
>filibustered by GOP.
>
>1974 Expanded NLRA to cover health care workers, largely because wildcat
>strikes were spreading at exempt hospitals, so even the GOP supported
>reform to include the workers in the NLRA.
>
>1965-66 Vote on major labor law reform, including repeal of "right to
work
>legislation. Filibustered by GOP. [Interesting story on that vote was
that
>minority leader Dirksen offered to drop the filibuster if labor agreed not
>to oppose a constitutional amendment overturning the "one person, one
vote"
>decisions for state legislatures. Labor leaders refused the deal; George
>Meany to his credit said, "As badly as I want 14(b) repealed, I do not
want
>it that badly. And the Senate Minority Leader and all his anti-labor
>stooges can filibuster until hell freezes over before I will agree to sell
>the people short for that kind of a deal."]
That's 6 examples over 37 years, with gaps of 8, 4, 16, and 7 years!!!! They controlled both houses of Congress for a good bit of that period. Surely you and they can do better than that.
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