IUEC 34 - Right To Work

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Copyright of IUEC Local 34.
For questions or comments regarding this web contact Web Master.
Last updated: June 25, 2011.

TO: ALL INDIANA LABOR LEADERS

FROM: KENNETH J. ZELLER

DATE: March 1, 2006

RE: A SNEAK ATTACK IN THE DARK OF NIGHT

Six minutes before the deadline for filing amendments to all bills this legislative session, Representative Cindy Noe (R-Indianapolis) introduced an amendment which would have turned Indiana into the 23^rd Right to Work state. Debate on this amendment to change a statute which has stood unchallenged for fifty plus years in Indiana began at nearly eleven p.m. Reversal of this long-standing law in Indiana would have thrust our state backward to a day when workers had no collective voice in their workplaces or the statehouse, where workers earn substantially less money, work in harsher, more unsafe conditions, have less insurance, less public education, and more infant mortality.

The amendment was passionately debated, but was destined to fail. Its introduction and the vote was likely intended to attract campaign donations from large, out-of-state, anti-union corporations for the 2006 election cycle. As a movement, we need to be prepared to counter this influx of anti-union campaign funds with all of our energies – grassroots, get-out-the-vote, and funds of our own - this election cycle.

In the end, sixty-three percent of all Republicans voting on the amendment voted for this attack on working families. The amendment was defeated with the full support of the Democratic caucus and some fair-minded Republicans who joined in opposition to this attempt to turn back Indiana’s clock.

The vote record is attached. Know how your representative voted on this strike at the heart of organized labor and the right of Hoosiers to work with dignity and democracy in their workplaces.

SB0117
Various employment matters.
Roll Call #304 Amendment #6 On 02/28/2006

Voting YEA:
R Robert W. Behning R Matt Bell R Randy L. Borror R William E. Bright R Tim Brown R Woody Burton R Bill Davis R Richard (Dick) Dodge R Jeffrey K. Espich R Ralph M. Foley R William C. Friend	R David Nason Frizzell R Eric A. Gutwein R Timothy Harris R Phillip D. Hinkle R Robert A. Hoffman R Dan Leonard R L. Jack Lutz R Luke Messer R Tim Neese R Cindy Noe R Phyllis J. Pond	R Kathy Kreag Richardson R Michael Allen Ripley R William 'Bill' J. Ruppel R Marlin Stutzman R Jeffrey Thompson R Gerald R. Torr R P. Eric Turner R Jacqueline Walorski Swihart R David Alan Wolkins
Voting NAY:
D John C. Aguilera Jr D Terri Jo Austin D Dennis T. Avery D Jeb Bardon D B. Patrick Bauer D Robert J. Bischoff D Carlene Bottorff D Charlie Brown D Duane Cheney D William C. Cochran D William A. Crawford D David L. 'Dave' Crooks D John Day D Jerry L. Denbo D Mae Dickinson D Chester F. Dobis D Ryan Dvorak D Craig R. Fry D Benjamin (Ben) GiaQuinta D Terry A. Goodin D F. Dale Grubb D Earl L. Harris	D George Philip Hoy D Clyde Kersey D Sheila Johnston Klinker D Thomas S. Kromkowski D Robert D. Kuzman D Linda Lawson D Edmund M. Mahern D Carolene Mays D Joe Micon D David Orentlicher D Dennie Oxley II D Scott Pelath D Phillip Pflum D Matt Pierce D Gregory W. Porter D Scott Reske D Paul J. Robertson D Vernon G. Smith D Dan Charles Stevenson D Russell L. Stilwell D Vanessa Summers D Vern Tincher	D Dennis Tyler D Trent Van Haaften D Peggy Welch R Ralph Donald Ayres R Bruce Borders R James Russell Buck R Mary Kay Budak R Lawrence Lee Buell R Suzanne Crouch R Cleo Duncan R Eric Koch R Don Lehe R Richard W. McClain R Michael B. Murphy R Thomas E. Saunders R John Smith R Andy Thomas R John Ulmer R Matthew D. Whetstone R Troy A. Woodruff R David B. Yount
Excused from Voting:
R Steven Heim
Not Voting:
D Winfield C. Moses, Jr. R Brian Bosma	R Robert Cherry

Not Voting