President Joe Biden and Utah Gov. Spencer Cox recently called for more working across the aisle and greater civility in political disagreements at the National Governors Association meeting in Washington, D.C. Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Amy Coney Barrett also urged more respectful public debates.
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‘Disagree Better’
Biden and Cox, a Republican who is chairman of the National Governors Association, are far apart on many issues but agreed at the association event on Feb. 24 that there should be less bitterness in politics and more bipartisanship. “Politics has gotten too personally bitter,” Biden said. Cox leads an initiative called “Disagree Better” that aims to reduce divisiveness.
(AP)
Work Together
“Governors agree that overcoming our nation’s challenges requires working together—across party lines and across state lines,” Cox said. “We can’t let political division get in the way of good policy. We welcome the opportunity to work with the White House and with Congress on finding bipartisan solutions to border security, economic stability and other challenges.”
(National Governors Association)
Justices Call for Tolerance
“If we can’t survive by tolerating differences and learning to compromise and learning to allow one another to express other views, we’re going to sink,” Barrett said at the National Governors Association event. “We won’t be able to get anything done as a country.”
Sotomayor said that public debates on TV have “too much vilifying of people.”
Political Affiliation Bias Strains Some Workplaces
The recent call for bipartisanship from Biden and Cox comes as many workplace experts and organizations, including SHRM, push for civility in the workplace. Many workers feel the effects of political affiliation bias and would benefit from greater inclusiveness, according to a 2022 SHRM Politics at Work Study.
The percentage of U.S. workers who say they’ve experienced political affiliation bias has risen 12 percentage points in the past three years, according to SHRM’s survey.
Almost a quarter of the 504 workers surveyed (24 percent) in 2022 said they have personally experienced differential treatment, either positive or negative, because of their political views, compared with 12 percent of U.S workers in 2019.
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