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NLRB: It’s To Check Everyone But Unions, Sen. Reid?

Admin — Wed, 11 May 2011 23:43:10 +0000

Check out this article and quote by Sen. Harry Reid as he defends the National Labor Relations Board against charges of grossly overstepping its bounds to tell the Boeing company where it can or cannot move its facilities:

NLRB: Special Interests in Specialty Healthcare Case

Admin — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:29:11 +0000

From the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace:

WASHINGTON, D.C. // MARCH 8, 2011 // Today, the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW) submitted a brief on what may be the most significant and troubling case before the National Labor Relations Board – Specialty Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center of Mobile and United Steelworkers, District 9, 356 NLRB No. 56 (2010).

At issue in Specialty Healthcare is whether Big Labor may organize by cherry picking groups of workers that support the union without providing many co-workers who may oppose the union an opportunity to vote. Such a ruling would reverse over 50 years of standards for bargaining units.

As a result of the decision, businesses could be forced to bargain with multiple unions for similarly situated employees, with each group of employees having separate wage schedules, benefit packages and work rules. Businesses, workers, consumers and the economy would suffer, as the negative impact on business productivity and competitiveness would be significant.

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

“e-Voting” Could Be Too Similar To Card Check

Admin — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 11:45:02 +0000

One of the issues that has been raised as it’s been discovered that the National Labor Relations Board has issued a request for cost estimates of a system that would allow employees to use electronic ballots in union-representation elections is whether the process will open employees to intimidation in the same way as the card check provision of the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act.

Keith Bogardus of the The Hill, who has been tracking this issue for years, ran an article yesterday examining employer concerns. The piece highlighted a letter by the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, of which Associated Builders and Contractors is a member:

Refuse 2 Recuse

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

Check out LaborUnionReport’s post at RedState: SEIU

Card Check Is Heavy, So Is it On To EFCA Lite?

Admin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:31:54 +0000

LRIonline has found documents showing the National Labor Relations Board is looking into the workability of electronic voting system and concludes: “Make no mistake. If unions can

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

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