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Biden Labor Board Blocks Construction Workers From Union Exodus ... Workers unanimously opted out of carpenters' union
https://freebeacon.com ^ | - MARCH 4, 2021 4:50 PM | Graham Piro

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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: indiana; nlrb; patricksemmens; presidentbiden; presidentharris; proact
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YOU WILL BE IN A UNION WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT!.............................
1 posted on 03/05/2021 7:20:11 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

demoncraps are not very democratic.


2 posted on 03/05/2021 7:23:17 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Red Badger

Doesn’t “freedom of association” include “freedom of DISassociation?”


3 posted on 03/05/2021 7:24:28 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Red Badger

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.


4 posted on 03/05/2021 7:25:15 AM PST by I want the USA back (The nation is in the grips of incurable hysterical insanity, as usual.)
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To: Red Badger

Gotta keep those Nazi leashes on!!


5 posted on 03/05/2021 7:26:00 AM PST by high info voter
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To: Red Badger

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.


6 posted on 03/05/2021 7:27:51 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Red Badger
The 13th amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
7 posted on 03/05/2021 7:29:21 AM PST by DeFault User
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To: Sirius Lee

There is nothing democratic about the Democrat Party.

L


8 posted on 03/05/2021 7:31:55 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: Red Badger

I’m thinking this must be a benevolent type union.


9 posted on 03/05/2021 7:32:10 AM PST by heshtesh
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To: I want the USA back

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984


10 posted on 03/05/2021 7:32:53 AM PST by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To: Red Badger

I freaking despise Democrats


11 posted on 03/05/2021 7:33:30 AM PST by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!it)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

“ Doesn’t “freedom of association” include “freedom of DISassociation?”

These days it depends on your skin color and/or sexual orientation.


12 posted on 03/05/2021 7:34:36 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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What happened to all those judges that would stop anything and everything Trump did+


13 posted on 03/05/2021 7:36:12 AM PST by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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14 posted on 03/05/2021 7:37:14 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Red Badger
<>"YOU WILL BE IN A UNION WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT!............................."<>

And not the union of YOUR choice but of the DemonRatz Party's choice!

Un-freaking believable.

15 posted on 03/05/2021 7:37:58 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (The Mob rises; the Monarchy trembles; the blade sings its lone song...)
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To: Red Badger

Forced union membership isn’t as important as forced union garnishment of wages to feed union lawyers and their Democrat aficionados.


16 posted on 03/05/2021 7:40:07 AM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Red Badger

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.”


17 posted on 03/05/2021 7:40:08 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Red Badger

It’s not about opposition to Right to Work but opposition to freedom from funding Democrats out of union dues.


18 posted on 03/05/2021 7:40:44 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Red Badger

Unions should be outlawed and their leaders imprisoned.


19 posted on 03/05/2021 7:44:31 AM PST by Beagle8U ("Jim Acosta pissed in the shallow end of the press pool.")
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To: Sirius Lee
If the NLRB prevents unwilling union members from getting rid of the union albatross and sees that elections are counted in such a way that the union bosses are always re-elected, and courts defer to the NLRB because they are their deep state bosses, then the ballot box and jury box have failed.

If a few examples are made, some of the rest may get the idea. Brutal, but maybe the only way.

20 posted on 03/05/2021 7:45:17 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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