Craig’s List: Employers Have No Right To Be Heard

IBD's Capital Hill ^ | 3/30/2010 | Sean Higgins

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Over the weekend, we noted the recess appointment of Craig Becker, the former Service Employees International Union lawyer to the National Labor Relations Board. The NLRB oversees labor and business relations, so this represents a pretty big payback for Big Labor even if Becker cannot serve past the end of the current Congress (January 2011). How big? Over at the Washington Examiner, Mark Hemingway elaborates on Mr. Becker’s take on labor/management relations:

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Craig Becker once argued as a labor attorney that “employers should have no right to be heard in either a representation case or an unfair labor practice case” that comes before the NLRB.

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I’d go slow on this one. It may be as represented, or it may have some procedural matters where the opportunity to be heard was somehow waived. Someone should cite the case where he argued that position before conservatives jump on this and get egg on their faces.

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Since Obama appointed him, I guess this shows that Obama accepts the idea that it's OK to have a verdict after only one side of the case has been heard.

The Emperor Claudius supposedly would render verdicts after hearing only one side of a case, but that hasn't been the American legal tradition until now. Destroying our legal rights...another facet of Obama's mission to "change" America.