Barton Jennings Gordon on Labor & Wages

DemocratTN

Labor & Wages210 votes · 84.2/100 consistent

Worker priorityEmployer priority

312 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Labor & Wages. 210 of them counted toward the score above: 182 toward “Worker priority” and 28 toward “Employer priority”.

The other 102 did not count: 98 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 4 were ones they did not cast a yea or nay on. They are listed below anyway, marked as not scored, because a filtered list of votes is not a voting record.

Date	What was voted on	Voted	Counted as
1986-04-17	TO AMEND HR 281 TO RESTRICT THE MANDATORY PAYMENT OF UNION DUES TO ONLY THOSE WORKERS WHO ARE A FORMAL PARTY TO A PRE-HIRE AGREEMENT BETWEEN A UNION AND A CONSTRUCTION COMPANY AND TO MAKE EMPLOYEES WHO WORK FOR RELATED SUBSIDIARIES EXEMPT.H.R. 281 · 99th Congress	Nay	Worker priority
1986-04-17	TO AMEND HR 281 TO ALLOW NON-UNION CONSTRUCTION WORKERS TO VOTE BY SECRET BALLOT TO DETERMINE WHETHER THEY WANT TO BE REPRESENTED BY A UNION CONTRACT.H.R. 281 · 99th Congress	Nay	Worker priority
1986-04-17	TO AMEND HR 281 TO REDEFINE THE TERM "SINGLE EMPLOYER" IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY AS COMPANIES THAT HAVE A "SUBSTANTIAL QUALITATIVE DEGREE OF INTERRELATIONSHIP OF OPERATIONS AND COMMON MANAGEMENT THAT WOULD NOT BE FOUND IN AN ARM'S LENGTH RELATIONSHIP AMONG UNINTEGRATED COMPANIES."H.R. 281 · 99th Congress	Nay	Worker priority
1986-04-17	TO ADOPT H RES 324, THE RULE CALLING FOR FLOOR CONSIDERATION OF HR 281, A BILL AMENDING THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT TO BAR CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES FROM BYPASSING LABOR LAWS TO EMPLOY NON-UNION WORKERS.H.R. 281 · 99th Congress	Yea	Direction not readable
1986-03-12	TO ADOPT HR 1524, A BILL TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF POLYGRAPH TESTING BY EMPLOYERS INVOLVED IN OR AFFECTING INTERSTATE COMMERCE.H.R. 1524 · 99th Congress	Yea	Worker priority
1986-03-12	TO AMEND HR 1524 TO PERMIT POLYGRAPH EXAMINATIONS FOR EMPLOYEES OF FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS.H.R. 1524 · 99th Congress	Nay	Worker priority
1986-03-12	TO AMEND IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE, HR 1524 TO PROVIDE MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF POLYGRAPH EXAMINATIONS.H.R. 1524 · 99th Congress	Nay	Worker priority
1985-11-21	TO APPROVE H R 1616 PLANT CLOSING AND NOTIFICATION. THE BILL REQUIRES EMPLOYERS OF 50 OR MORE EMPLOYEES TO GIVE AT LEAST 90 DAYS NOTICE BEFORE THEY CLOSE THEIR PLANTS OR LAY OFF OVER 30% OF THE EMPLOYEES.H.R. 1616 · 99th Congress	Yea	Worker priority
1985-11-21	AN AMENDMENT TO H R 1616 THAT REQUIRES EMPLOYERS OF 200 OR MORE EMPLOYEES TO GIVE 60 DAYS NOTICE BEFORE THEY CLOSE A PLANT OR LAY OFF 100 OR MORE EMPLOYEES.H.R. 1616 · 99th Congress	Nay	Worker priority
1985-11-21	AN AMENDMENT TO H R 1616 PLANT CLOSING AND NOTIFICATION THAT REQUIRES EMPLOYERS OF 50 OR MORE EMPLOYEES TO GIVE AT LEAST 90 DAYS NOTICE BEFORE THEY CLOSE THEIR PLANTS OR LAY OFF OVER 30% OF THE EMPLOYEES.H.R. 1616 · 99th Congress	Yea	Worker priority
1985-11-14	A SUBSTITUTE TO A PRIOR AMENDMENT TO H R 1616 PLANT CLOSING AND NOTIFICATION WHICH REMOVES A PROVISON OF THE BILL REQUIRING EMPLOYERS TO MEET WITH EMPLOYEES BEFORE THEY CLOSE A PLANT IN ORDER TO FIND A WAY TO KEEP THE PLANT OPEN.H.R. 1616 · 99th Congress	Nay	Worker priority
1985-11-12	TO APPROVE H RES 313 TO CONSIDER H R 1616 LABOR NOTIFICATION AND CONSULTATION ACT. THE ACT OBLIGES EMPLOYERS TO GIVE AT LEAST 3 MONTHS NOTICE BEFORE THEY PERMANENTLY LAY OFF 50 OR MORE EMPLOYEES, AND TO CONSULT WITH EMPLOYEES TO FIND A WAY TO KEEP THE BUSINESS RUNNING.H.R. 1616 · 99th Congress	Yea	Direction not readable

Sorted newest first. “Counted as” is which end of the Worker priority / Employer priority axis the vote moved this member toward, using the direction recorded for this issue on that roll call. Open any row to see the full measure, the tally, and the reason that direction was assigned.