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TexasTowelie

(111,297 posts)
Wed Feb 20, 2013, 07:03 PM Feb 2013

AG Abbott calls for strengthening Texans’ right-to-work

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott joined with legislators Wednesday to announce actions to strengthen the state’s right to work laws.

New legislation filed by state Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, and state Rep. Charles “Doc” Anderson, R-Waco, would mandate a secret ballot before employees decide to unionize. Abbott called unionizing an “independent choice” for Texans, and asserted that the efforts would help employees feel comfortable to make their own decision.

“It ensures that every Texas worker is allowed to make the choice to unionize without coercion, without threats, without intimidation,” Abbott said.

Abbott, who is said to be considering a run for governor in 2014, also released a Texas Workers Bill of Rights, which emphasizes the right of Texans to not join a union. He encouraged employers to display the document to advise workers of this right.

More at http://www.statesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/abbott-calls-for-strengthening-texans-right-to-wor/nWTbS/ .

[font color=green]One of the comments to the article was quite interesting:[/font]

[font color=blue]"There's no one in Texas who knows less about the value of a hard day's work than our loser of an attorney general. He made his fortune when he laced up his sneaks and went jogging in a lightening storm through the richest neighborhood in Texas, under old rotting tree limbs. When one fell on him, pre-tort reform, he hired the best trial lawyers in Texas and settled with a big enough verdict that he'll never need to work again.

Abbott's mission since that point has been to put the screws to poor, working-class Texans. This anti-union garbage of his is squarely in the center of his campaign against the working men and women of Texas. Abbott is a I-got-mine-so-screw-you politician of the first order."[/font]

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AG Abbott calls for strengthening Texans’ right-to-work (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2013 OP
Texas is already RTW. They want to make it worse? LeftInTX Feb 2013 #1
GOP is afraid that Texas workers are going to say to one another, let us look in to and start to DhhD Feb 2013 #2

LeftInTX

(24,551 posts)
1. Texas is already RTW. They want to make it worse?
Wed Feb 20, 2013, 11:56 PM
Feb 2013

Life is blessed in the minimum wage capitol of the USA.

DhhD

(4,695 posts)
2. GOP is afraid that Texas workers are going to say to one another, let us look in to and start to
Thu Feb 21, 2013, 05:40 PM
Feb 2013

set up a labor union. GOP wants to stop such a movement from getting started in Texas.

And the GOP is taking the first steps to stop a national movement for the $9.00/hour minimum wage. After all that would support and widen the power of the awakening Low Middle and Middle Class in Texas.

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