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Jutsa wrote:

So, thoughts on the current GA proposal?

I argued against the original resolution when it was first at vote, because it was so poorly worded and would prevent effective legislation on this necessary topic from being passed due to overlap. This repeal does not harm workers (the original resolution is too flawed to be meaningful), and may well help them by allowing actual protections to be passed.

To quote what I wrote at the time...

"The problem we're having is that this proposal as written goes beyond doing just that," [eliminating company unions] "and touches on several other elements in such a way that it would prevent effective legislation from being written for other aspects of union organization and labor law without first repealing this resolution. While the main thrust you describe for the proposal, and some of the "urges" clauses, are themselves good progressive positions we can support, a number of those other aspects that it touches upon, including mandated actions, are actually very conservative and anti-union. We are therefore concerned that, due to the unfortunate "repeal and replace" process that we are stuck with, the passage of this bill would potentially do more harm than good."

As such, my personal vote is to repeal.