Posted on 05/30/2009 7:08:22 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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Even if Card Check fails in Congress, the game will be rigged against small business owners and the managers of private corporations if President Obama wins Senate approval for Craig Becker as a member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Presently associate general counsel of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Becker wants to use new bureaucratic regulations to interpose government between workers and the alleged atmosphere of compulsion created in the workplace by owners and managers. Writing in 1993 in the Minnesota Law Review, here’s how Becker, then a UCLA law professor, put it:
“This new legal framework would entail a body of new campaign rules. For example, employers could not lawfully exploit employee dependence to insure audiences for their anti-union speech. Thus, captive audience meetings at any time, not simply during the final twenty-four hours before an election, should be grounds for overturning an election. Similarly, the Board should not hunt through the workplace searching for the ‘locus of final authority,’ but instead should acknowledge that employer authority pervades the workplace and that compulsion is implicit when employers campaign during the work day."
Becker’s new legal framework would bar owners and company managers from attending NLRB hearings about elections or to issue challenges even when there is evidence of union abuses. Becker would also prohibit owners or managers from having independent observers at the polls to challenge questionable ballots during union representation elections.
Such changes would translate into a dramatic departure from current law. Both sides of labor-management disputes have a voice at NLRB election hearings, and owners and managers can present their case to workers 24 hours prior to any workplace representation election.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
“I hope Republicans can keep Becker off the NLRB.”
The Republicans couldn’t keep a grapefruit from rolling uphill.
I really think all productive economic activity in this country will cease in about 12 to 18 months.
LOCKOUT, Shutdown... Business CLOSED ... OUT OF BUSINESS...
I'm a member of 2 Unions. and if any OTHER Unions show up for ANY REASON... They will see One of the above Signs on the front door.
not all, but more than libs can even imagine. i am stunned the dow is above 4000 and the ten year bond rate is below 10%.
they won’t be for long.
Can this nation survive Obama?
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