Two very bad ideas from labor regulators
BY SAM GRAVES
Special to The Star

Rep. Sam Graves

The rules to kickball are fairly simple. You kick the ball and then run to the base. If the ball beats you to the bag, or you get tagged, then you are out. It’s a lot like baseball. But what if the umpire changed those rules in the middle of the game? What if the umpire made more rules that cost your team time and money to comply with?

What if the rules seemed to be structured to help the other team score?

That would certainly make the game less fun and fewer people would want to play. Unfortunately for too many small businesses, this isn’t an off-the-wall scenario, it’s reality.

In 2007, a bill known as “card check” — allowing the creation of union bargaining units without secret-ballot elections — passed the House. It did not come to a vote in the Senate. Yet much of what wasn’t passed into law is being enacted through agency regulations.

The National Labor Relations Board recently handed down two rules I believe will make it much more difficult for small businesses to survive.


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