This is a testimony submitted to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions by Steve Delie on May 22, 2024.

Chairman Good, Ranking Member DeSaulnier, and members of the subcommittee, good morning, and thank you for having me. My name is Stephen Delie, and I am the Director of Labor Policy for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, as well as the legal and policy advisor for its Workers for Opportunity initiative. We are a 501(c)(3), nonprofit research and educational institute that advances the principles of free markets and limited government. Through our programs, we challenge government overreach and advance free-market approaches to public policy that free people to realize their potential and their dreams.

I am here today to support policies that will bring greater balance to labor law and enable workers to make a voluntary, clear, and knowing choice about unionization in their workplace. These policies are necessary because now, perhaps more than ever, federal law unfairly places a thumb on the scale in favor of unionization. Too often, government mandates and restrictions essentially force workers to accept a union, regardless of what workers actually want. Read more.

Steve Delie is the director of labor policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy