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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 30, 2011

CONTACT: Apryl Marie Fogel, aprylmarie.fogel@mail.house.gov

GOSAR VOTES TO REBUKE NLRB OVERREACH

Continues record to promote job creation and growth, and be a strong advocate for Small Business

Today, Congressman Paul Gosar (AZ-O1), demonstrated his continued support for a strong national economy and the strengthening of private sector jobs by voting in favor of H.R. 3094, “The Workforce and Democracy Act.”  This bill will help Arizonans get back to work and get big government out of the way of small business.

This Act seeks to protect employers and employees from an aggressive and hostile overreach by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) by stopping the NLRB’s new rule that forces “ambush union elections” on businesses and denies due process and fairness by rushing elections.  In pursuing this rule, the NLRB board ignored decades of precedent and acted in an unusually partisan manner in seeking to impose this unusual rule as demanded by its union overseers.

“I cannot stand by and watch the NLRB engage in its systematic, continuous and sustained attack on American businesses.   At a time when hardworking, taxpaying American workers are looking for increased opportunities and job development the NLRB seeks to impose undue stress on job creators. These new proposed rules will further hamper American competitiveness and put more American jobs at risk,” said Gosar.

Gosar also noted that the NLRB’s proposed rule to impose “micro unions” on American businesses “is wrong and will divide employees and raise employers’ labor costs which in turn raises costs on all consumers.”

Under the Act, the law would revert back to the decades-long procedures for union organizing and allow employees and employers a fair amount of time to respond to election issues and guarantees that employees have an enough time to decide if they want to join a union (35 days rather than the 10 days proposed by the NLRB). The Act also rolls back the NLRB mandate on employers to give out confidential employee information.

Gosar concluded, “I have said repeatedly—our federal government cannot, by fiat, pick winners and losers in the free market.  The efforts by the NLRB to slant elections are another example of a wrong federal policy.”

Congressman Gosar is a small business owner from Flagstaff serving his first term in Congress.

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