House Proceeding on Mar 1st, 2007 :: 5:47:46 to 5:49:09
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to tell you what i'm going to do today. i'm going to stand up and stand tall and i'm going to vote for every american worker and protect their right to have a secret ballot. i yield back.

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Diana DeGette: the chairman: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from california. mr. -- the gentleman from california. the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from new jersey. mr. andrews: in closing

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Speech By: Diana DeGette

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Diana DeGette: i yield the balance of our time to the chairman of the committee, author of the bill, mr. mille national labor relations act. but it's revoked by employers. arbitrarily without reason, without

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Diana DeGette: purpose. then they can insert those employees into a process that is well documented now of hundreds of thousands of employees over the last decade that have been punished and had retribution

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Diana DeGette: and been harassed, lost pay, lost their homes, lost their jobs, lost their good shift, premium time. that's the record. that's the record. so the question is simply this. will we give these

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Diana DeGette: employees a choice to decide do i get to have an nlrb election or do i want to choose this? 30% can have an election. takes 50% to have a charred check. your secret pal lot -- mr. mckeon, you

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forgot to have the secret ballot for the decert. apparently you don't need one for that. just a card check. now we understand what's going on here. let's remember today the families find