{"id":149,"date":"1977-03-21T18:07:53","date_gmt":"1977-03-22T01:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/?p=149"},"modified":"2014-09-23T17:38:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T00:38:54","slug":"not-in-public-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Common Situs Picketing Not in Public Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Click<\/a>The verbal exchange the other day between Labor Secretary Ray Marshall and Utah’s Sen. Orrin G. Hatch gave a clear glimpse of battle lines drawn in the fight over the controversial common situs picketing bill in Congress.<\/p>\n

The bill would permit striking construction workers to picket – and possibly shut down – an entire project in a dispute with a single subcontractor.<\/p>\n

Secy. Marshall, who was questioned before the Senate Labor Committee, said President Carter has agreed to sign the bill if passed by Congress.<\/p>\n

Following a long fight by labor interests, Congress passed the bill during the previous administration but president Ford vetoed it.<\/p>\n

This year, it appears the measure again will be pushed very hard on Capitol Hill – and the move has the added impetus of the President’s apparent support. This despite: (1) Such picketing was ruled an illegal secondary boycott by the Supreme Court 25 years ago; and (2) a new nationwide opinion study by the\u00a0Roper Poll, commissioned and released by the National Right to Work Committee, indicated over three-fourths of the American People feel building trades should not have the power to picket an entire construction site.<\/p>\n

Marshall portrayed the situs picketing bill as a vehicle to bring economic\u00a0stability to the construction industry. It seems rather vague how this result would be accomplished. Certainly\u00a0the contractors groups which oppose it take the opposite view.<\/p>\n

Sen. Hatch (R-Utah) and Sen. S. I. Hayakawa (R-Calif.) who questioned Marshall insisted the measure would protect violence, feather-bedding and discrimination by the nation’s building trade unions. Sen. Hatch pictured the bill as a prelude to labor’s efforts to win repeal of Section 14B of the Taft Hartley Act which allows states to prohibit union shops.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a spokesman for the AFL-CIO declared the opponents were motivated by a desire to destroy the country’s labor movement. “Their stand is based upon their opposition to organized labor and to their fear that a stronger union movement\u00a0will curtail their opportunities to secure contracts by undercutting wage and labor standards,” argued Robert Georgine, head of the AFL-CIO Building Trades Departments.<\/p>\n

The public has a big stake in the controversy. To us, the policy of giving striking workers the power of shutting down an entire project because of a dispute with one subcontractor doesn’t seem fair – nor in keeping with the public interest. We urge that Congress reject the common situs picketing bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The verbal exchange the other day between Labor Secretary Ray Marshall and Utah’s Sen. Orrin G. Hatch gave a clear glimpse of battle lines drawn in the fight over the controversial common situs picketing bill in Congress. The bill would permit striking construction workers to picket – and possibly shut down – an entire project… Continue reading Common Situs Picketing Not in Public Interest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}