Providing for Congressional Leadership Disapproval of a Rule Submitted by the National Labor Relations Board

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Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Thank you, Chairman Kline, for yielding.

Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the chairman's leadership on this important issue, and I am grateful to be a cosponsor of this legislation.

As a member of the House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, I am concerned with the National Labor Relations Board's latest rule, which is referred to as the ambush election rule, and I stand in strong support of S.J. Res. 8.

The ambush election rule is a tool to force union elections, not to protect workers. Revisions of the list requirements under the rule will compel employers to provide very personal information about their employees, such as names, address, telephone numbers, and email addresses. This will violate the privacy of workers while reducing the informed decision period. To add insult to injury, the rule does not limit or dictate what unions can do with this sensitive information.

I am pleased that South Carolina is a right-to-work State. Union membership is not a requirement of employment in our State. It is based on freedom of choice. I am grateful we have fought as a State to give our employees and job creators the flexibility to choose what is best for them.

South Carolina has successfully opposed the rogue NLRB when the NLRB tried to block 1,000 jobs at the Boeing facility in Charleston. With the leadership of

Governor Nikki Haley, Attorney General Alan Wilson, and Senators Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott, we stopped the NLRB, and now over 7,000 jobs have been created.

S.J. Res. 8 will express our strong disapproval of the National Labor Relations Board rule and ensure a fair elections process.

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