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LaborUnionReport.com looks at comments by Big Labor and their biggest supporter in the Senate, Sen. Tom Harkin and says someone’s got some splainin to do:

As we scan through all of the posts, comments and critiques surrounding union bosses’ President Obama’s controversial nominee to the National Labor Relations Board, the SEIU’s Craig Becker, we could not help but notice some BIG inconsistencies in the comments made by Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) and the AFL-CIO’s mouthpiece Stewart Acuff.

The inconsistencies are over whether or not Craig Becker will can push to use his (possible) position on the NLRB to push for provisions contained in the all-but-dead Employee Free Choice Act.

The SEIU has said that Becker’s nomination is labor’s highest priority now, which was largely explained by a statement by Acuff that Becker could accomplish through the NLRB what labor could not achieve legislatively: namely, card check.

But then there’s this quote from Sen. Harkin:

As you are all aware, I

Tags: Craig Becker, National Labor Relations Board, NLRB