[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 90 (Tuesday, June 18, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6432]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  SUPPORT THE WORKER RIGHT TO KNOW ACT

  (Mr. BALLENGER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BALLENGER. Mr. Speaker, is it fair that any union member should 
automatically have money deducted from his or her paycheck to pay for 
political candidates or causes with which he or she disagrees? It is 
fair that a union member should have to battle his or her union in 
order to object to the union's spending of dues for political purposes? 
And, if he or she does object, is it fair that a union member be 
subjected to harassment from the union, or worse, the threat of losing 
his or her job? I certainly don't think so, and I would hope and expect 
that our colleagues on both sides of the aisle would feel the same way.
  Mr. Speaker, the Worker Rights to Know Act will help instill some 
basic fairness to the process by which unions spend the hard earned 
money of their members. I urge my colleagues to support its passage.

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