[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 66 (Thursday, May 21, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H3630-H3631]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  SILENCING AMERICA'S WORKING FAMILIES

  (Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD. Mr. Speaker, my California colleagues join me in 
bringing attention to an orchestrated campaign to silence America's 
working families.
  Proposition 226, on California's June ballot, will undermine unions' 
efforts to advocate on behalf of our Nation's workers. By subjecting 
union members to a cumbersome annual verification of their dues, 
Proposition 226 will cripple organized labor's ability to promote fair 
wages, health care, retirement security and worker safety.
  This initiative is harmful and unnecessary. The U.S. Supreme Court 
has already ruled that workers have the right to refuse to contribute 
to their union's political activities. This anti-worker movement is not 
about paycheck protection for workers, it is about the systematic 
disenfranchisement of American workers, such as our

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teachers, nurses, police officers and factory workers.
  Californians and Americans across this Nation must band together to 
stop this calculated attempt to stifle the voices of working people in 
our country.

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