Howard apes Bush

Does this sound familiar?

President Bush and his allies in Congress have it in for working families. They’ve taken away overtime pay, refused to raise the minimum wage, given huge tax breaks to the rich and attacked our union rights. Now, the Bush National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is poised to broaden the definition of “supervisor” in a move that could rob 8 million workers of their collective bargaining rights.

The NLRB is preparing to rule on a series of three cases collectively called “Kentucky River.” It won’t be any surprise if the NLRB uses these cases to erode workers’ rights.

Under President Bush, the NLRB already weakened the collective bargaining rights of graduate employees, workers with disabilities and temporary workers. The Bush administration also stripped 40,000 federal workers of their freedom to form unions and is trying to take collective bargaining rights away from 860,000 more.