Cheating Taxpayers To Benefit Unions

The Republicans control the House Of Representatives.  Why are Republicans supporting Barack Obama's union cronyism and the cheating of taxpayers?  There were 27 Republicans voting for a bill to help unions and raise the costs of government contracts.

The House passed the largely non-controversial Military Construction/Veterans Affairs Appropriations (MilCon) bill for FY 2012.  The House passed an amendment forcing government contractors to use labor unions on federal construction projects.  This amendment passed by one vote, with the help of 27 Republicans.

In 2009, Obama signed an Executive Order, forcing all private companies to sign a project labor agreement (PLA) in order to bid on federal construction projects.  PLA’s compel the private contractor to use only unionized workers for the perspective project.  This executive power grab is nothing more than an election payback to big labor, which would ostensibly purloin the taxpayer with forced collective bargaining for all public construction projects.

The executive order also discriminates against non-union workers.  As Congressman John Culberson (R-TX) said on the House floor, “So the Obama administration through this executive order is attempting to unionize any private company in America that wants to do business with the federal government.”  Democrats have been paying out their union cronies with the blood and sweat of American taxpayers for years.

Last month, Republicans on the Appropriations Committee inserted language in the MilCon bill to nullify any executive mandate for project labor agreements.  Union shill Representative Steve LaTourette (R-OH), proposed an amendment to strike out the anti PLA section from the bill.  He rounded up 26 other Republicans and helped Democrats preserve Obama’s pro-union discrimination by 204-203!

Also 54 Republicans voted down an amendment (Justin Amash- AMDT 413) to prohibit the use of funds to enforce Davis-Beacon prevailing wages.  This Great Depression era pro-labor law inflates the cost of public contracts by forcing the government to pay highly subjective “prevailing” wages to those who contract with the federal government.  Representative Amash and others have been seeking to use apropos bills to strike out these wage controls from government contracts.  Each time, there was enough rogue Republicans to defeat his amendments.  The amendment to the MilCon bill failed 178-232, with the help of way too many Republicans.

America, the Tea Party has a lot left to do.  We are broke and the House passes bills that make the deficit larger and only benefits unions.  Republicans are passing bills helping the Democrats and unions keep a stranglehold on us.

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