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ID HJM006
JM
Status
1/26/2012
Primary Sponsor
State Affairs Committee
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AI Summary
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Idaho Legislature expresses concern that labor organizations use "market recovery funds," "job targeting funds," and similar schemes financed by employee wage deductions to subsidize contractors without guaranteeing direct employee benefits.
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Such wage subsidy schemes would violate federal price-fixing and wage-hour laws if used by nonunion employers, thereby undermining Idaho's Right to Work statute and creating compulsory unionism.
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These employer subsidy funds are often used alongside threatening and coercive union organizing activities intended to intimidate employers into voluntary recognition or pressure employees into union membership against their will.
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Legislature declares it a compelling state interest to protect the right to work for all Idahoans by prohibiting compulsory unionism through anticompetitive rebates of employee wages to subsidize contractors or subcontractors operating in Idaho.
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Chief Clerk of the House is directed to forward a copy of this memorial to the President of the United States, congressional leadership, and Idaho's congressional delegation.
Legislative Description
Stating the findings of the Legislature and resolving that it is a compelling state interest of the Legislature to protect the right to work for all Idahoans, union and nonunion, under the authority granted by Congress under Section 14(b) of the National Labor Relations Act, by proscribing compulsory unionism as a condition of employment via anticompetitive rebates of employee wages to subsidize a contractor or subcontractor doing business in the state of Idaho.
RIGHT TO WORK
Last Action
to St Aff
1/27/2012