HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.C.R. NO.

49

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 
   


HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

REQUESTING HAWAII'S CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION TO PROTECT WORKERS FROM UNION VIOLENCE.

 

 

WHEREAS, every American has the right to expect a workplace free of violence; and

WHEREAS, some labor unions have resorted to violence, bribery, and extortion in their workplace unionization campaigns; and

WHEREAS, this violence has not confined itself only to the workplace, but has spilled over into other areas of American civic life (including political campaigns); and

WHEREAS, the people have a constitutional right to expect their free speech exercises to be respected by their fellow citizens and protected by the law; and

WHEREAS, Congress has in the past sought to restrict union violence is the Hobbs Act, which was thrown out by judicial activism; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-third Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2005, the Senate concurring, that the legislature of the State of Hawaii request the Congressional delegation of the state of Hawaii to vote to reauthorize the Hobbs Act to restrict union violence; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to each member of Hawaii's Congressional delegation.

 

 

 

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Report Title:

Protection of workers from union violence; support