The last thing America's workers need is another economic kick in the groin, but the Bush labor board may soon deliver what could be its lowest blow yet. The Bush National Labor Relations Board is easily the most anti-worker labor board in history and has lost few opportunities to turn back the clock on workers' rights, but even against this sorry backdrop, the scope of what they now are contemplating is breathtaking.
In a series of pending cases known as Kentucky River, the Bush board could strip what remains of federal labor law protections from hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of workers whose jobs include even minor, incidental or occasional supervisory duties
Already in 2000, months before George Bush was declared President, Human Rights Watch issued a powerful report that found U.S. labor laws were grossly out-of-compliance with international human rights norms. HRW's bill of particulars was lengthy, but the first item on their list was U.S. labor law's failure to cover millions of workers, including, among others, managers and supervisors in the private sector.
Two years later the Government Accountability Office estimated that 32 million workers lacked coverage under U.S. labor laws and thus were denied even the minimal protections afforded by these laws.
Included in this number were nearly eleven million private sector managers and supervisors, even before the Bush labor board's rulings in Kentucky River.
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