Posted on 03/05/2021 7:20:11 AM PST by Red Badger
The Biden administration is blocking the exits for construction workers who unanimously voted to cut ties with their union.
The National Labor Relations Board refused to allow a group of Indiana workers to hold a vote that would decertify their representation with the local carpenters' union despite the group's unanimous support for cutting ties. The group of workers submitted the request to the regional NLRB, which blocked the attempt to decertify.
The board's lawyers allege that the workers are engaging in "bad faith" bargaining, according to the case filing. Indiana is a right-to-work state, meaning the state allows employees to work without requiring union membership, but the board is blocking the vote under federal law on the grounds of bad faith bargaining.
The carpenters' union did not respond to a request for comment.
The conflict comes as President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats signal their readiness to take executive and legislative action to empower labor unions. Biden has already overhauled the leadership of the NLRB with the unprecedented removal of the board's general counsel, and House Democrats are expected to vote on the PRO Act, a drastic labor reform bill.
Patrick Semmens, vice president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, which is assisting the workers, said the labor board is already moving to undo reforms put in place by the NLRB under former president Donald Trump that simplified the process for workers to decline union representation.
In March 2020, the NLRB finalized rules that simplified the process for employees to decertify their union leadership. "The Board believes that these amendments better protect employees’ statutory right of free choice on questions concerning representation," the board stated.
Semmens said the move to block the Indiana workers from decertifying their leadership is the first step in weakening those rules.
"I would fully expect that once there's a Biden majority on the NLRB, they're going to move to undo those rules to allow unions to block even more instances where workers are seeking decertification elections," Semmens said. "It certainly points to something I unfortunately think we're going to see more of in the coming years."
House Democrats are also expected to vote on the PRO Act next week. The act would significantly weaken right-to-work laws nationwide, although it stands little chance of passing the deadlocked Senate.
demoncraps are not very democratic.
Doesn’t “freedom of association” include “freedom of DISassociation?”
biden has no right to do that. So, we now have a finger poking decrepit tyrant in the White House who will do anything to repay the ones who got him elected: unions, chicoms, iran, blm, antifa.
Gotta keep those Nazi leashes on!!
If the parties were reversed, there would be immediate lawsuits filed and injunctions sought (and probably granted).
The MSM would immediately announce this, and those filing the lawsuits would proudly and defiantly express their outrage over what the president had done, and their intention to see that he is stopped.
There is nothing democratic about the Democrat Party.
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I’m thinking this must be a benevolent type union.
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984
I freaking despise Democrats
“ Doesn’t “freedom of association” include “freedom of DISassociation?”
These days it depends on your skin color and/or sexual orientation.
What happened to all those judges that would stop anything and everything Trump did+
And not the union of YOUR choice but of the DemonRatz Party's choice!
Un-freaking believable.
Forced union membership isn’t as important as forced union garnishment of wages to feed union lawyers and their Democrat aficionados.
In the early seventies, I was an involuntary member of the retail clerks international. The local chapter president was a short, fat little man. Always around him were goon-like muscle guys. It seemed like every time I saw him, it was a scene from a gangster movie. In the head gangster’s office there are always these guys just “there.” (In the movies, there is also a decorative woman in fishnet stockings. Never saw her.) After a meeting, I asked one of the old timer’s, a woman cashier, what those guys were for.
She said, “Anybody disagrees with something, those guys change their mind.”
“You mean they beat them up?”
“Yeah.”
It’s not about opposition to Right to Work but opposition to freedom from funding Democrats out of union dues.
Unions should be outlawed and their leaders imprisoned.
If a few examples are made, some of the rest may get the idea. Brutal, but maybe the only way.
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