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Protecting transgender workers betrays traditionalists

2020: "The Supreme Court ruled that a landmark civil rights law protects gay and transgender workers from workplace discrimination, handing the movement for LGBT equality a long-sought and unexpected victory. 'An employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender defies the law,' Justice Neil M. Gorsuch wrote for the majority in the 6-to-3 ruling. The decision, the first major case on transgender rights, came amid widespread demonstrations, some protesting violence aimed at transgender people of color." [New York Times, 6/15/20]

Senator J.D. Vance lashed out at the 'conservative legal movement' after the Supreme Court ruled that gay and transgender employees should be protected from job discrimination. "The conservative legal movement has accomplished two things: libertarian political economy [enforced by judges] and betrayal of social conservatives and traditionalists,' Vance tweeted." [Washington Examiner, 6/15/20]

Source: Washington Examiner in 2024 Trump Research Book , Aug 2, 2024

Opposed the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act

Leading U.S. unions warned voters not to be fooled by the pro-worker facade constructed by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, a Republican senator from Ohio who has opposed congressional efforts to strengthen organizing rights, allowed corporate lobbyists to influence his legislating, and raked in donations from the elites he claims to despise.

The president of the AFL-CIO said in a statement that "Sen. JD Vance likes to play union supporter on the picket line, but his record proves that to be a sham. He has introduced legislation to allow bosses to bypass their workers' unions with phony corporate-run unions, disparaged striking UAW members while collecting hefty donations from one of the major auto companies, and opposed the landmark Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which would end union-busting 'right to work' laws and make it easier for workers to form unions and win strong contracts."

Source: Common Dreams e-zine on 2024 Veepstakes , Jul 16, 2024

Railway Safety Act: Reasonable regulation to enhance safety

One of Vance's top priorities since taking office has been the response to the February 2023 train derailment and disaster in East Palestine, Ohio. Vance has pushed for an aggressive response by government and industry to the disaster and has taken on government officials, rail executives and some Republicans in his advocacy.

He's a lead sponsor of the "Railway Safety Act," S. 576, a bipartisan bill that would mandate a set of new safety standards and fines for the freight rail sector, especially trains carrying hazardous materials.

At a March 2023 hearing on the bill, Vance argued that some in the GOP "seem to think any public safety enhancements for the rail industry is somehow a violation of the free market." The legislation has the support of Senate Democrats and some Republicans but has faced opposition from GOP leadership. It remains stalled.

Source: Environment & Energy News on 2024 Veepstakes , Jul 15, 2024

Put more people to work by rebuilding our industrial base

Vance urges more focus on China: "We have to pivot to Asia. China is the most powerful competitor the U.S. has had since we became a world power. We need to focus on Asia; we need to let the Europeans focus on Europe."

"Hillbilly Elegy" describes the impact of globalization on Cincinnati, where many of the once-plentiful steel and other factory jobs had moved offshore and left a community struggling economically and with substance abuse issues. "I think the most important lesson is that America is like a house, and the foundation of that house is our own people and our own manufacturing base; we've allowed that industrial base to atrophy," Vance said. "Until that foundation is repaired, I don't want to hear about us being the policeman of the world."

That means "putting more people to work, rebuilding our industrial base, building more stuff, producing more of the things we can rely on--is a better use of American dollars."

Source: Cincinnati Enquirer on 2024 Veepstakes , May 15, 2024

Raising minimum wage to $15 is solution from the 1960s

Source: Guides.vote candidate survey on 2022 Ohio Senate race , Nov 1, 2022

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