Vermont Democrats want to make it easier for employees to form unions in the state, so they’ve introduced legislation that would let workers “decline to attend employer-hosted meetings” without consequence “they are primarily about the employers’ political or religious opinions.”
The actual target of this bill is captive audience meetings. Gatherings mandated by an employer to talk employees out of signing union cards and organizing. It is common practice to punish anyone who refuses to attend. Unions and Democrats, if the two can be separated at all, want to make it harder to stop what amounts to new campaign revenue to Left-Wing candidates (more union members, more dues), making it illegal to punish employees who skip them helps their cause.
But the bill may have an unintended side-effect.
[A] statewide group said the bill could let employees decline to attend diversity or other social justice–centered trainings, as did the Associated Industries of Vermon and the Lake Champlain Chamber of Commerce.
NO!!!!
If you pass a law preventing employers from punishing employees who beg out of any mandated meeting, you won’t be able to teach progressive political or ‘religious’ options either. That has to include gender sensitivity and sexual harassment training.
And so we are clear, I was in a union for many years. I understand why some occupations benefit; the actual workers are not the problem. Union leadership, the bosses, use those workers to leverage a patronage system whose ultimate benefactors are politicians whose plans are to rob you blind.
Vermont Dems want to end employer interference in unionization in the state, but by doing so, they risk giving workers the freedom to opt out of a class on using someone’s preferred pronoun. What a tragedy, but hardly. Just rewrite the proposed law to say precisely what you mean. Employers can mandate meeting attendance except for captive audience meetings meant to prevent organizing a labor union. Done.
You’re not shy about any of your other BS. What’s the problem here?
And it’s not as if you will listen to the hew or cry of outrage from the people, if there is any. Your response to opposition to the dopey heat standard bill proved that.
Hey. Be You!
