Obama Threatens Veto of FAA Reauthorization Bill [Call the Obama Bluff.]

ATR ^ | 2011-03-31 | Billy Gribbin

[92nina]

...Now the Obama administration is faced with the FAA bill's Title IX provision, which stands to reverse the NMB's hard work on behalf of Big Labor. The administration's memorandum claims "by treating non-votes as “no” votes, the provision would prohibit workers in the airline and railroad industries from voting whether to join a union on the same basis – majority rule – as most other industries." Of course it does, Mr. President, precisely because the transportation sector is so radically vital and different from other industries. In addition, unionization should not be a thing against which workers must constantly defend themselves; the "burden of proof" should lie upon the organizers who must convince a majority of all employees to agree to certification. The perversity of the NMB's ruling is apparent from the AFA howling that Delta informed its employees too-well about the election. If the union bosses had their druthers, no worker would know anything about unionization until it was too late to vote against it (which Americans have been overwhelmingly doing, in recent years).

On a slightly different and somewhat creepy note, the memo goes on to say that "the Administration is committed to help working Americans exercise their right to organize under a fair and free process and bargain for a fair share of the wealth their efforts help to create." Redistributionist enough for ya? Notice this: as far as the White House is concerned, a decent wage has nothing to due with the value of services rendered, but rather a "fair share" of the wealth gained by one's employer. Voting taxpayers, as Obama's employers, should wonder whether he's applying this theory to his own job. If President Obama vetoes the FAA Reauthorization Bill, he'll prove it.

Read more: http://www.atr.org/obama-threatens-veto-faa-reauthorization-bill-a6007#ixzz1ID2WoNVB

[92nina]

The president can take a stand when he likes, but not so principled.

Take this article and others I found to the fight to the Libs on their own turf; put the Left on the defensive at at Digg and at Reddit and in Delicious and Stumbleupon

[FrankR]

He and Whoopie are bastions of liberal logic...

[92nina]

So true...