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Card Check: So That Didn’t Happen …

Admin — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:12:13 +0000

Card check was the 800-pound gorilla in the 2008 election. By 2010 it was the issue almost every politician — except die-hard friends of Big Labor bosses — was looking to avoid taking a vote on or voicing support for as the anti-democratic, job-killing Employee Free Choice Act languished.

Well, now Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown (D) has announced the federal legislation’s Time of Death. He said today “It’s not going to happen now.”

And a good thing, too. Union members didn’t like it. The vast majority of employees (non-union) didn’t like it. Voters didn’t like it. Politicians didn’t like it. It was the bill so bad it had multiple fatal flaws.

As with all bad ideas, though, the core threat lives on the action of the seemingly captured agency of the National Labor Relations Board, where Member Craig Becker is pushing Big Labor’s agenda big time. Check out our friends at MyPrivateBallot.com for running news on the Board.

NLRB: Becker Renomination Pits President’s Words, Actions

Admin — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:54:52 +0000

Today the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW) decried President Obama’s renomination of Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board. The coalition warned that the decision has put the president

Card Check King’s Recusal Refusal Under Review

Admin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:48:35 +0000

The Daily Labor Report today has this interesting item:

At the request of Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the National Labor Relations Board’s inspector general has launched an investigation on whether Member Craig Becker should have recused himself in a case involving St. Barnabas Hospital and Local 1957 of the Service Employees International Union.

… and …

In a June 15 letter to the inspector general, Issa formally requested that Berry investigate whether Becker’s participation in the unfair labor practice case against St. Barnabas

Refuse 2 Recuse

Admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:33:47 +0000

Check out LaborUnionReport’s post at RedState: SEIU

Card Check King Accused of Recusal Backtrack

Admin — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:13:41 +0000

LaborUnionReport.com is helping lead the charge against card check-by-fiat and its personification, National Labor Relations Board member Craig Becker. The site points out that Becker is backtracking on an important promise he made to recuse himself from cases involving his former employer, the highly powerful Service Employee International Union.

Now Shopfloor’s Carter Wood is adding two very valuable cents, pointing out that Becker’s ethics pledge looked like swiss cheese, opining: “Well, if you

Card Check: Taking A Back Seat To No One

Admin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:27:56 +0000

Keith Smith from the National Association of Manufacturers reports on Senate maneuverings to seat the highly controversial union attorney Craig Becker on the National Labor Relations Board.

It’s another reminder, as Smith notes, that Becker is the embodiment of the ill-designed, ill-intended, job-killing, anti-democracy Employee Free Choice Act and Big Labor is intent on making sure its seat at the table — and National Labor Relations Board — ends up in passing EFCA by that name or another.

Hot Off The (PR)resses

Admin — Fri, 07 May 2010 16:32:47 +0000

It appears the impact of recess-appointed Craig Becker on the National Labor Relations Board may be having subtle but important and negative effects on employers and employees, or at least that’s one of several plausible conclusions to be drawn after reading some great investigatory work by Chamberpost.com’s Brad Peck.

He did some digging and found out that the NLRB is now essentially doing public relations work for unions, putting out notices of union-won elections (which, of course, greatly undercuts the argument for the sinisterly misnamed Employee Free Choice Act). What Peck found was that the PR work was a significant break from the past, when the Board remained neutral, as one would expect given the wording and spirit of the National Labor Relations Act. This left him to conclude:

Unions and some Board folks have in the past cherry picked a few words out of the 1935 policy declaration in the Wagner Act that it is the policy of the US to “encourage” collective bargaining

Card Check and NLRB: Raw Deal or New Deal?

Admin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:58:08 +0000

Among the continuing reaction to news of the president’s ill-advised recess appointment of union attorney Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board comes from none other than a former Member of that board.

We tracked down John Raudabaugh, formerly of the NLRB and now of Nixon Peabody, with a question we’d received about the president’s departure from the standard practice of appointing members from both parties. Here’s what Mr. Raudabaugh offered:

“The NLRB is now 3 to 1. On August 27, it will be 3 to 0. Not since the New Deal and first six years of the NLRB, 1935-1941, has the Board been all Democrats or all from one party. Labor law reform followed in 1947 to balance the scales. Is the past to be prologue”

It’s hard to beat the expertise of someone’s who has sat in that very chair. And so many historical parallels one could get into …

UPDATE: More reaction coming in … The US Chamber adds 50 cases to keep an eye on and warns employers to be on red alert.

UPDATE(d) UPDATE: Thanks to BigGovernment.com readers for joining us! Also se more from Rob Bluey of Heritage, who writes: “The appearance of preferential treatment hasn

ABC Objects to Recess Appointment of Craig Becker to National Labor Relations Board

Admin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:02:49 +0000

Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) 2010 National Chairman Jim Elmer, president of James W. Elmer Construction Co., Spokane, Wash., today issued the following statement in reaction to President Obama

Monday Morning Card Check Briefing

Admin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:57:07 +0000

The big news of the weekend — was it planned to be dumped with the Friday trash? — was the president’s recess appointment of union attorney Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board, where his previous anti-employer (and arguably anti-employee) views could threaten workplace democracy.

That leads the chatter around the blogosphere.

The Daily Caller reported it as “Obama rewards unions with key labor appointee,” while noting all 41 Republican Senators sent a letter to the president urging him not to move forward with Becker’s recess appointment. The wording left nothing to the imagination, saying Obama gave “organized labor a big payback for its help in pushing his health-care reform across the finish line, unilaterally appointing a controversial pro-union attorney…”

Investors Business Daily reflects on the stakes involved and turns to the words of the AFL-CIO’s own Stewart Acuff, “If we aren’t able to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, we will work with President Obama and Vice President Biden and their appointees to the National Labor Relations Board to change the rules governing forming a union through administrative action.”

Elsewhere, Chris Stirewalt of the Washington Examiner writes: “Now that Obamacare is the law of the land, Democrats promise to take on global warming, card check, immigration and a regulatory crackdown on banks.”