Employer Coalition Urges NLRB To Tear Down Poster Plan
WASHINGTON, D.C. // FEBRUARY 22, 2011 // On behalf of millions of employers, the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW) today filed comments opposing an effort by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to force firms to post pro-organizing notices in an estimated 6 million workplaces, the vast majority of which are non-union. The rule would require all employers covered by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) to post a notice setting forth some—but not all—rights under the Act.
CDW chair Geoffrey Burr stated, “This notice is nothing more than an advertisement for union organizing. The NLRB claims it wants to inform employees of their rights but conveniently omitted any information about employees’ right to vote out a union they don’t like, withhold payment of any union dues spent on politics, and the right to refuse to pay for the union’s unwanted services in the 22 states with Right to Work laws.”
CDW’s comments, signed by 180 employer groups, highlight that the “Board simply does not have authority to impose these obligations and penalties against an employer when there has been no finding (or even an allegation) of an unfair labor practice.”
Burr added, “The notice is yet another sign that this Board has become an instrument of unions bosses and is abandoning its proper role as a neutral enforcer of our nation’s labor laws. This is the poster child of bad ideas; the Board needs to withdraw this rule immediately.“
About the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, www.MyPrivateBallot.com
The Coalition for a Democratic Workplace is a coalition of workers, employers, associations and organizations who are fighting to protect the right to a federally supervised private ballot when workers are deciding whether or not to join a union.
Today, the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace sent a letter to Senators Mike Enzi (R-WY) and Johnny Isakson (R-GA) and Reps. John Kline (R-MN), Phil Roe (R-TN), and Phil Gingrey (R-GA) commending them on the introduction legislation to demonstrate Congress’s disapproval of the National Labor Relations Board’s unfair ambush election rule.
In addition to laying out three “fatal flaws” with the Board’s rule, CDW relies on the position of former Senator and President John F. Kennedy, who emphasized that employees need at least 30 days to decide how to vote in NLRB elections.
Today, the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW), which represents over 600 employers, associations and other organizations operating in every Congressional District, thanked the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and Chairman Darrell Issa for holding a hearing on four unlawful appointments by the Obama administration.
In response to Mr. Obama’s continuing assault on workers’ rights, on Thursday, Education and Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline, Minnesota Republican, and I [Rep. Phil Gingrey] introduced a joint resolution of disapproval pursuant to the Congressional Review Act (CRA) on the NLRB’s ambush election rule. Sen. Michael B. Enzi, Wyoming Republican, introduced the Senate companion.
The partisan clash over President Barack Obama’s NLRB recess appointments was on full display at a House hearing Tuesday: Democrats called the meeting a waste of time and Republicans called it instructive.
GOP lawmakers are still steaming over the White House decision to ignore brief pro forma Senate sessions to single-handedly name three members to the National Labor Relations Board and Richard Cordray as the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Senate Republicans are weighing a plan to block most of President Barack Obama’s federal appeals court nominations starting in June or earlier in response to the recess appointments he made this month.
