Rand Paul is promoting a National Right To Work Act

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http://www.salon.com/news/rand_paul_kentucky_senate_republican/?story=/tech/htww/2011/01/27/rand_paul_kicks_big_labor_when_it_is_down

Thursday, Jan 27, 2011 18:35 ET

How The World Works Rand Paul kicks Big Labor when it's down

Union membership is at a 70-year low, but that's not good enough for the new senator from Kentucky

Looks like Rand Paul is still smarting from some of the nasty things that representatives of organized labor said about him during the Kentucky senate race last year. Earlier this week, he sent out sent out an e-mail asking supporters to sign a petition urging the Senate to hold a vote on the "National Right to Work Act."


Dear Concerned American,

They snickered when I said I came to the U.S. Senate to change Congress. But their laughter stopped when I sponsored the National Right to Work Act to free U.S. workers from forced unionization and break Big Labor's multi-billion dollar political machine forever. President Barack Obama and Big Labor allies in the Senate are now feverishly scheming to bury the National Right to Work Act without a vote. So I have a question for you. Will you be my sledgehammer? Your signature on the petition to your Congressman and Senators is what is needed to bust through the opposition and force a vote on the National Right to Work Act.


Haven't workers suffered enough? Just last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 2010 only 6.9 percent of the private sector work force were union members. Throw in government workers, and the number pops up to 11.9 percent, but both figures represent 70-year lows. For all intents and purposes, the power of organized labor has been broken in the United States. Rand Paul is kicking a beaten cur.

[LeftinOH]

1. From the Constitution of the USSR:

"Fundamental Rights of Citizens" (1936)

ARTICLE 118. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to work, that is, are guaranteed the right to employment... The right to work is ensured by the socialist organization of the national economy, the steady growth of the productive forces of Soviet society, the elimination of the possibility of economic crises, and the abolition of unemployment.

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha.

[prolesunited]

7. Good find

He's a commie!

[ProSense]

2. Paul: Kill the Unions Act!

So here's Rand Paul, hero of the Tea Party, great defender of liberty, doing his best to ensure that inequality continues to expand, and that workers continue to get ground under the heel of Big Capital. Because it's been working out so well for us, all these years.

[Angry Dragon]

3. I am getting really sick of all these greedy and stupid

radical republicans
As long as the want to pass a right to work law then they need to create jobs because I have the right to work and they have destroyed jobs

[no_hypocrisy]

4. What about a "Right for Unions To Work" bill . . . . ?

[gratuitous]

5. How about national standards for opthalmologists?

No more self-certifications!

I guess Sen. Paul doesn't believe in the right of free people to assemble.

[Johonny]

6. typical republican double talk

Unions protected workers and thus allowed more to work. Non-union labor has far fewer "rights" including the ability to get work. Unions at an all time low AND the job market sucks. How will stripping the country of unions increase employment?

[w8liftinglady]

8. Yes. Texas is a "Right-to-work" state...ask every poverty-stricken family who lives here

which is more and more every day as the unions lose their footstep here.

[HuckleB]

9. Boycott Kentucky...

... Until the state gets rid of this clown.