http://www.onenewsnow.com/Business/Default.aspx?id=915812A union watchdog group believes an Obama administration plan for government contracting would be harmful to small businesses and lead to further compulsory unionism.
President Obama is proposing some new rules for government contracting that the White House claims will help expand the middle class. However, critics warn the plan would increase the cost of contracting and the size of bureaucracy.
According to the New York Times, by altering how it awards $500 billion in contracts each year, the government would disqualify more companies with labor, environmental, or other violations and give an edge to companies that offer better levels of pay, health coverage, pensions, and other benefits.
Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Committee (NRTWC), says the proposal is a "retread," but dangerous nonetheless.
"We saw this before -- the Clinton administration tried to do this early on, and we called it then what I think we should call it now, and that is a 'blacklisting regulation,"' Mix suggests. "It's going to radically change the way people do business with the federal government, and you've got to get everything right. And if you don't comply informally with rules and regulations and provide special benefits for organized labor, you're going to be in trouble if want to do business with the government."
/uploadedImages/Cartoons/030110.jpg The NRTWC president adds that organized labor has made a "corporate campaign," targeting businesses to agree to hand over their workers to forced unionism. According to Mix, one of the ways they do that is by filing "frivolous" charges against those businesses.
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