Mike Rogers on Jobs Republican Representative (MI-8)

Limit actions by National Labor Relations Board

Labor: Make it easier or harder for unions to organize?
• Mike Rogers (R): Mixed. Voted to limit National Labor Relations Board action. Voted to limit federal prevailing wage laws on major construction projects. In 2007, sided with management during a strike at GM. Expressed support for a 2023 UAW strike in Michigan.
• Elissa Slotkin (D): Easier. Voted for the PRO Act, to expand workers' rights to organize and collectively bargain. Bring "critical supply chains and manufacturing" back to the US, to create "good-paying, union jobs."

2007: Opposed raising minimum wage

Minimum Wage: Raise federal minimum from $7.25/hr?
• Mike Rogers (R): No recent position found. In 2007 voted against raising the minimum to $7.25 per hour.
• Elissa Slotkin (D): Yes. "If you work 40 hours a week, you should not live in poverty." Raise the minimum gradually to $17 by 2028.

Rated 7% by the AFL-CIO, indicating an anti-union voting record.

As the federation of America’s unions, the AFL-CIO includes more than 13 million of America’s workers in 60 member unions working in virtually every part of the economy. The mission of the AFL-CIO is to improve the lives of working families to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation. To accomplish this mission we will build and change the American labor movement.

The following ratings are based on the votes the organization considered most important; the numbers reflect the percentage of time the representative voted the organization`s preferred position.

Rated 92% by CEI, indicating a pro-workplace choice voting record.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free markets and limited government, has created a Congressional Labor Scorecard for the 112th Congress focusing on worker issues. The score is determined based on policies that support worker freedom and the elimination of Big Labor`s privileges across the country.

Votes in the current Congress score include:
• Bill: H.R. 658, LaTourette Amendment No. 21: NO on repealing changes to the Railway Labor Act`s voting rules.
• Bill: H.R. 658, Gingrey Amendment No. 18: YES to prohibit Federal Aviation Administration employees from using official--that is, taxpayer sponsored--time for union activities during the official workday.
• Bill: H.R. 1, Price Amendment No. 410: YES to defund the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
• Bill: H.R. 1, Guinta Amendment No. 166: YES to prohibit imposing `prevailing wage` and other requirements in project labor agreements that advantage unionized contractors.
• Bill: H.R. 2017, Scalise Amendment No. 388: YES to prohibit project labor agreements in DHS contracts
• Bill: H.R. 2055, LaTourette Amendment No. 411: NO on funding for federal project labor agreements.
• Bill: H.R. 1, King Amendment No. 273: YES to eliminate the `Davis Bacon` prevailing wage rate requirement for federal projects.
• Bill: H.R. 2017, Gosar Amendment No. 386: YES to eliminate the `Davis Bacon` prevailing wage rate requirement for Department of Homeland Security contracts.
• Bill: H.R. 2354: Gosar Amendment No. 655: YES to restrict application of the Davis-Bacon Act to contracts exceeding $20 million.
• Bill: H.R. 2017: Rokita Amendment No. 2: YES to prohibit collective bargaining at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).