Posts tagged House Education and Workforce Committee
House Committee Grills Labor Chief Over Independent Contractor Crackdown
February 22, 2024 // Chair Kiley called upon the committee members to address Looman with their questions or comments. Administrator Loomis could not, or did not, choose to answer many of the questions asked such as Chair Kiley’s questions about different occupations (real estate brokers, truckers, journalists) who would be classified as an independent contractor under the new rule. Looman not only appeared to be unfamiliar with the language within the 339 pages of the rule but also was unaware (or pretended to be) that the rule is written in such a way that classifying any profession as anything other than an employee is next to impossible.
House probe starts after $127M in bailout funds paid to dead Teamsters’ pension plan
January 16, 2024 // Foxx and Good also said the “mismanagement casts doubt on PBGC’s implementation of the larger program, the $91 billion Special Financial Assistance (SFA) program,” saying Central States had sent a follow-up letter to the inspector general’s office that implied it would use the money “as their personal slush fund” to help it “achieve its statutory objective of remaining solvent through 2051.” Inspector General Nicholas Novak previously told The Post that there was no clawback function available to PBGC as part of the American Rescue Plan, through which the Biden administration provided more than $80 billion to other multi-employer pension funds.
Opinion: NLRB Trips Over Itself to Promote the SEIU
May 11, 2023 // Now the NLRB has launched a new tactic to “encourage” union wins—a preemptive bargaining order requiring an employer to recognize and bargain with a union. So-called Gissel bargaining orders are meant to be used only in particularly egregious cases where an employer is alleged to have engaged in misconduct so pervasive that no fair election could be held. In the case of a Starbucks store in Overland Park, Kansas, however, NLRB administrative law judge (ALJ) Arthur Amchan recently decided to impose a Gissel bargaining order to cover a re-run election that hasn’t even been scheduled yet. That is truly egregious.
Opinion: Ways Congress can strengthen the trucking workforce
April 5, 2023 // For 90 years, the U.S. economy and supply chain have benefited from the choice of individuals to run their own trucking businesses. More than 90 percent of motor carriers operate six trucks or fewer, many of whom started as independent contractors and continue to choose that business model for themselves.
Column: The PRO Act will disempower Virginia workers
March 28, 2023 // Under the guise of transparency, the PRO Act would mandate employers to partake in “notice-posting” and codify the National Labor Relations Board’s 2014 Election Rule that gives them access to workers names, addresses, job locations, phone numbers and email addresses in a searchable electronic format. Unions having unfettered access to information like this would be a major privacy violation and lead to worker intimidation for refusal to comply. It’s unacceptable for labor unions to meddle in affairs like this.