“According to the AFL-CIO’s scorecard for 2014, Rogers’ final full year in the House, Rogers had a lifetime record of voting just 11% with working people.”
LANSING, Mich. – The American Independent reported last week that throughout his career in Congress, corporate sellout Mike Rogers voted time and again to weaken union power and workers’ rights at the expense of hardworking Michigan families.
The story noted that the last time the UAW went on strike while Rogers was in office he sided against workers and criticized the UAW. Not only has Rogers sided with management in the past but he also voted to effectively shut down the NLRB (National Labor Relations Board), repeal wage protections for workers, and co-sponsored legislation to replace overtime pay with extra time off.
Read American Independent’s reporting on Mike Rogers’ history of standing against Michigan workers below:
The American Independent: Mike Rogers Says He Supports UAW Strike but Fought Against Union Consistently in Congress
Highlights:
- “Rogers represented Michigan in the House between 2001 and 2015 before moving to Florida. Over his time in Congress, he repeatedly attacked the UAW and voted consistently against the interests of workers.
- The Associated Press reported that in 2007, when the union went on strike against GM, Rogers vocally sided with management:
- ‘As Michigan faces incredibly difficult economic times, I am very disappointed that the United Auto Workers could not come to an adequate agreement with the management of Michigan’s largest and most important job provider, General Motors.’
- Among the anti-worker votes the group recorded were votes to repeal wage protections for construction workers that are guaranteed under the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931.
- In 2003, he backed a George W. Bush administration plan to make millions of American workers ineligible for overtime pay and co-sponsored a bill to replace overtime pay with extra time off.
- Rogers voted for a 2013 bill that would have temporarily stopped the National Labor Relations Board from taking “any action that requires a quorum of the members.” The AFL-CIO said it “would effectively shut down the NLRB and needlessly place the rights of millions of American workers in jeopardy.”
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