Mark Gruenberg at People’s World reports U.S. Senate Labor Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy (Republican-Louisiana) has unveiled a GOP package of Labor Law reforms that is a corporate lobbyist’s dream - and the opposite of Organized Labor’s Protect the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. The batch of measures Cassidy stitched together omits the one Bill with bipartisan backing, to mandate arbitration when Workers and bosses can’t reach first contracts within a set time. That measure, by Senators Josh Hawley (Republican-Missouri) and Cory Booker (Democrat-New Jersey) drew support from the Teamsters. “Greedy corporations will stop at nothing to keep Workers from getting a fair first contract,” Teamsters President Sean O’Brien said when the duo unveiled their Faster Contracts Act earlier this year. “Their playbook is simple: Stall, delay and drag out negotiations to deny Workers from securing the wages and conditions they deserve.” O’Brien called it “real reform that forces employers to bargain in good faith and holds them accountable when they don’t.” What did make it into Cassidy’s package of Labor Law reforms pleased Anti-Worker ideologues - No card check recognition - and Unions would win secret-ballot elections by majority votes only when at least two-thirds of the eligible voters cast ballots; Mandate the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) follow court precedents - and only Court precedents, in ruling on cases. That effectively neutralizes the NLRB’s power to set rules for relations between Workers and bosses. Cassidy claims following only the courts would prevent the swings the NLRB makes whenever partisan control switches.

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