Posted on 09/01/2011 1:31:48 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
I wish this was unexpected, but with the out-of-control Obama Labor Board, it's exactly as we've feared and predicted.
As you know, the NLRB is bulldozing its way through workers' rights and the Board's own precedents to hand Big Labor as many new special privileges as it can before the 2012 elections.
-- Plotting to eliminate thousands of Boeing jobs in Right to Work South Carolina.
-- Proposing a scheme to ambush workers with union certification elections.
-- Forcing its way into every workplace in the country with biased notices that serve as a roadmap to coerced unionization. The Obama Labor Board is on a war path against worker freedom. And the hits just keep on coming.
Last week, three former union lawyers on the National Labor Relations Board voted to overturn the Board's pivotal 2007 ruling in Dana Corp.
The Foundation-won Dana case was one of the most important victories for workers' rights at the Board in recent years, securing for employees the right to challenge union card check organizing campaigns with a secret ballot vote.
Workers often sign so-called "union authorization cards" due to union organizers' intimidating tactics or even outright lies about what signing a card means.
In fact, many workers across the country -- like the Dana Corp. workers from Albion, Indiana in this video -- have used Dana elections to kick out unwanted unions, demonstrating the unreliability of card check instant organizing.
But now thousands of workers who cast secret ballots in similar elections won't even have their votes counted. The NLRB is actually destroying the votes!
Big Labor's Card Check Forced Unionism Bill stalled in Congress due to widespread opposition from the American public to eliminating the secret ballot -- and incumbents who supported card check faced the wrath of the voters in the 2010 midterm elections.
So instead the union bosses turned to the NLRB -- where Barack Obama conveniently installed former union lawyers.
Most notably, Obama installed former SEIU and AFL-CIO union lawyer Craig Becker as a recess appointee to the Board.
Becker infamously called the secret ballot "profoundly undemocratic" and in his time on the Board has repeatedly demonstrated his blatant pro-forced unionism bias and disregard for ethics.
In fact, Becker refused to recuse himself from the decision to overturn Dana even though he co-authored a brief for the AFL-CIO in the original case!
Overturning Dana on its own would be bad enough, but what makes it even more troubling is how it goes hand-in-hand with the Board's other recent power grabs.
Take the proposed ambush elections rules, for instance.
If the rules are implemented, union operatives will be able to ambush workers with quick-snap elections just days after union organizers turn in "union authorization cards" from a mere 30 percent of the workforce.
And to make it even easier for union operatives to steamroll their way into workplaces, the Board would also force companies to hand over to union organizers the name, address, phone number, email address, and shift schedule of each employee, exposing workers to "home visits" and other intimidation tactics.
But if union bosses get wind of the possibility that they could lose the election by secret ballot, the new rules would allow them to withdraw their petition but save the personal contact information of each worker for a full-scale card check campaign at a later date.
By overturning Dana, the Obama Labor Board just eliminated the one protection remaining for workers against abusive card check campaigns.
In fact, the NLRB is making card check an even more powerful weapon against workers and job providers alike.
That's why the National Right to Work Foundation will continue fighting back.
We've already blasted the decision to overturn Dana in the press, and Foundation attorneys are working on new legal challenges to card check forced unionism.
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Card check isn't dead yet. And the Obama Labor Board's all-out assault on individual workers isn't over either.
That's why we must remain vigilant.
Sincerely,
Mark Mix
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We are now, officially, a communist country.
Workers have no rights.
Now, now. Don’t be so harsh.
They DO have the option of giving money to the Democrat Party, whether they like it or not, through the National Socialist Labor Front...
Err..., I mean....
AFL-CIO/SEIU/NEA
THIS type of crap is why I fear Obama version 2.0 in 2012. There will be such widespread fraud & cheating at the hands of big labor. I don’t care who the GOP runs, Obama will “win” by a landslide. At least, that’s what I’m afraid of.
Please tell me I’m wrong.
Our government is colluding with their fellow Marxists in the unions to destroy the country from within and we are sitting around playing by the Marquess of Queensberry rules.
Real Americans, attempting to cross communist picket lines are harassed and the unionized JBTs in the police departments are stuffing their faces with donuts instead of protecting our right to move freely through the country and do business. And we do nothing.
The government/union mafia continues to pack the public sector with more of their Marxist filth and eventually we will not be able to out vote them.
I for one would gladly stand at the driveway of the Boeing plant in SC and protect them from the JBTs until the last drop of blood flowed out of my body.
We need to develop the backbone of the Founders otherwise all will be lost.
This government is coming at us from so many directions and has corrupted our last line of defense in the USSC with a bunch of political hacks on both sides of the aisle hence all the 5-4 decision by the “most brilliant judges the country can produce” /sarcasm off
Think I am wrong about the USSC? Just look at all the recent decisions where the USSC decided that various individuals did not have standing! WTx if a US Citizen does not have standing in areas like the constitutionality of prez obozo being president then who does.
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