Experts: GOP’s Job Outsourcers’ Bill of Rights Will Harm Nearly Every American Industry

by Press Staff

The House GOP's Job Outsourcers' Bill of Rights will have far-reaching implications for nearly every industry in America, according to nearly 250 legal experts around the country.

While Thursday’s expected vote on the bill (H.R. 2587) is purportedly in response to the allegations that the Boeing Corporation engaged in illegal activity, the impact on workers of the legislation goes well beyond this particular case.

Essentially, the response of House Republicans to a Fortune 500 special interest caught in a legal battle is to eviscerate every other worker’s rights.

In a letter from more 248 legal scholars, the GOP’s Job Outsourcers’ Bill of Rights would affect nearly every industry in America:

“If enacted, HR 2587 will eliminate the ability of the NLRB and the courts to effectively remedy any discriminatorily motivated decision to transfer work from employees or eliminate their jobs not for legitimate business reasons, but because the employees have engaged in union or other NLRA protected activity. It will also eliminate any meaningful remedy for an employer’s refusal to bargain with a union in circumstances where it is required to do so before transferring or contracting out work performed by workers the union represents...[T]he impact of HR 2587 would go well beyond overruling the Acting General Counsel’s actions in the Boeing case. If enacted, it will give tacit permission to employers to punish any segment of their workforce that chooses to unionize or to exercise the right to strike by eliminating their jobs…Employers will be able to eliminate lines of work, hire subcontractors, switch jobs to non-union facilities or transfer them out of the country in violation of the NLRA—secure in the knowledge that the Board will be unable to order it to undo those actions.”

These assertions echo those of the several other groups who have formally expressed opposition to the GOP's Job Outsourcers' Bill of Rights.

 

To learn more about H.R. 2587, click here.