Young voted against mining safety reform. In 2008, Young voted against a bill that would shorten deadlines for mining operators to conform to new safety requirements, provide the Mine Safety and Health Administration with subpoena power and increase penalties for multiple safety violations.  The bill would also require mine operators to install new communications equipment sooner than previously mandated. [VOTED NO on HR 2768, Vote #10, 1/16/08; Congressional Quarterly]

Young voted to strip overtime protection from millions of workers. [NO on vote to block the stripping of overtime protection: HR 2660, Vote #351, 7/10/2003] Young voted against applying the same rules to executive pensions as the ones that apply to non-executive employees; the bill he voted against would have restricted overly-generous corporate executive pension plans and golden parachute packages to departing executives. [VOTED NO on HR 1000, Vote #187, 5/14/2003]

Young voted against preserving Social Security benefits for retired public employees in Texas and Georgia, many of whom were teachers, firefighters, and police. [VOTED NO on HR 743, vote #100 and vote #101, 4/2/2003]

Young voted to give zero funding for implementing OSHA’s Ergonomics Rules instead of $4.5 billion. Young voted to give no enforcement authority or power to ergonomics rules submitted by the Labor Department during the Clinton Administration. These rules would force businesses to take steps to prevent work-related repetitive stress disorders. [YES on SJ Res 6, Vote #33, 3/7/2001]

Young voted to restrict the ability of patients who are damaged by negligent doctors to bring medical malpractice lawsuits [VOTED YES on HR 4600, Vote #421, 9/26/2002]

Young’s voting record was rated 21% 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 the nation.

The rating was based on votes the organization considered most important and reflects the percentage of time the representative voted the organization’s preferred position. [Source: AFL-CIO website 03n-AFLCIO on Dec 31, 2003]