Labor & Employment Law

Boehner: No Reason for Unions

By Tula Connell

Well, this is ugly. But then, look at the messenger….

From today?s New York Times profile of House Minority Leader John Boehner (R):

?We were self-insured, so we were anxious to see our people wear seat belts, and at that point John was in the ?Let?s leave the government out of things? stage,? Mr. [Jim Webb, Boehner's business associate] recalled. (Mr. Boehner did eventually vote for a law requiring seat belt use.) Mr. [Bob] Hagan, the [Ohio] state legislator, who served with Mr. Boehner on a Labor and Commerce Committee, said, “He thought there was no reason for organized labor.?

Boehner knows one big reason unions exist: To protect America’s workers from lawmakers like Boehner, who dance to the tune of their corporate paymasters like Goldman Sachs, the American Bankers Association and Big Pharma.

And that’s why he opposes America’s unions.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on October 15, 2010 (boomark / email).