If it is good for Kenya, it is good for the stupid Americans.
Posted on 01/17/2011 5:25:06 AM PST by markomalley
This is pretty bad, even by Obama administration standards. Such blatant help for union political allies certainly makes the administration's intentions clear, and tells us who really owns this White House. From a political perspective, Republicans in these states should welcome the development:
The National Labor Relations Board on Friday threatened to sue Arizona, South Carolina, South Dakota and Utah over constitutional amendments guaranteeing workers the right to a secret ballot in union elections.
The agency's acting general counsel, Lafe Solomon, said the amendments conflict with federal law, which gives employers the option of recognizing a union if a majority of workers sign cards that support unionizing.
The amendments, approved Nov. 2, have taken effect in South Dakota and Utah, and will do so soon in Arizona and South Carolina.
Business and anti-union groups sought the amendments, arguing that such secrecy is necessary to protect workers against union intimidation. They are concerned that Congress might enact legislation requiring employers to allow the "card check" process for forming unions instead of secret ballot elections.
In letters to the attorney general of each state, Solomon says the amendments are pre-empted by the supremacy clause of the Constitution because they conflict with employee rights laid out in the National Labor Relations Act. That clause says that when state and federal laws are at odds, federal law prevails.
Solomon is asking the attorneys general in South Dakota and Utah for official statements agreeing that their amendments are unconstitutional "to conserve state and federal resources."
Here in Arizona we are a “right to work” state and so unions aren’t the big tough machine like they are in states such as IL, NJ,etc.
....A given....it’s the Chicago way..... =.=
The American Citizens to the Federal Government and the Unions. Kiss Our Ass..........
The agency's acting general counsel, Lafe Solomon, said the amendments conflict with federal law, which gives employers the option of recognizing a union if a majority of workers sign cards that support unionizing.
I don't see how there is a conflict. A majority of workers can still sign cards supporting unionization irrespective of the State's requirement of a secret ballot. Shirley the NLRB isn't this stupid???
Solomon is asking the attorneys general ... for official statements agreeing that their amendments are unconstitutional
To quote Johnny Mc... "you cannot be serious!"
If it is good for Kenya, it is good for the stupid Americans.
Was with someone who was ordering business cards yesterday and heard of the union “bug” for the first time. Thought it totally bizarre.
Here I thought we had to petition Congress to keep them from passing “card check”.
Come to find out, this admin just did an end run,
“deemed” card check to be the default,
and is demanding that states abide by that default.
Everybody sing!
“Look for...
the union lay bull...
and make sure you’re buying...
something...
else...”
The difference being that you don't get to 'sign a card' in private.
If a couple of union goons show up at your door with baseball bats and say "Me 'n the boys think youse outghta sign this here card" They can easily get "a majority of workers to sign cards"
And employers will not have "the option" of recognizing the union
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced on June 20, 2010, that Lafe Solomon was tapped to serve as the NLRB’s Acting General Counsel. The General Counsel, as “gatekeeper” of cases at the NLRB, is responsible for the investigation and prosecution of unfair labor practice cases.
Mr. Solomon began his career with the NLRB 38 years ago as a field examiner in the Seattle office. Most recently, Mr. Solomon served as director of the NLRB’s Office of Representation Appeals.
Mr. Solomon replaces Ronald Meisburg
as outgoing General Counsel. Mr. Meisburg, whose term as General Counsel did not expire until August, resigned his position effective June 20, which prompted President Barack Obama to appoint Mr. Solomon to the post.
unions=communist cells
LMAO
Nah, that’d be giving them too much credit. For the most part, unions are just criminal enterprises - shakedown rackets extorting “protection” money from businesses and the taxpayers, just like the old organized crime families of yesteryear did.
I'm sure he'd like to do away with them in the public sector as well.
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