CDW sent a letter to Members of the House of Representatives for marking up the Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act

The Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act, introduced by Minnesota GOP Rep. John Kline, is one of many bills proposed to rein in what California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa described this month as a “rogue agency.” The legislation will move soon to the full House.

Suppressing votes is something we usually associate with Third World dictators. But closer to home, the National Labor Relations Board in Washington is the one calling off elections. After working at Kaiser Permanente for 21 years, I was abruptly informed that Service Employees International Union organizers were launching a “card check” drive at my workplace.

As evidence, Mr. Issa, a California Republican, cited documents that Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog organization, recently obtained from the NLRB through a Freedom of Information Act request. The documents included emails “that demonstrate the lack of impartiality of the NLRB” in the Boeing complaint, Mr. Issa said in a letter sent Monday to NLRB Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon. For example, in one email that contained a union press release praising the case, an NLRB attorney proclaimed: “[h]ooray for the red, white and blue,” Mr. Issa said in his letter.

The National Labor Relations Board’s acting general counsel, Lafe Solomon, broke the law by intentionally withholding documents about Boeing Co., Representative Darrel Issa said.

The National Labor Relations Board postponed until Jan. 31 the deadline for employers to post notices informing employees of their right to organize and join unions.

Republicans and Democrats on the House Education and the Workforce Committee clashed Wednesday over legislation that would undo recent regulations and rulings from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

The Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, on behalf of hundreds of employers and associations representing millions of workplaces in every Congressional District in the nation thanked the House Education and the Workforce Committee for holding a hearing on Chairman John Kline’s Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act.

In the midst of a national jobs crisis, President Obama continues to insist that the answers to our economic problems are more stimulus spending and higher taxes. Meanwhile, he has turned a blind eye to the job-destroying agenda of his own National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

The National Labor Relations Board postponed the start date of a rule requiring employers to post a notice informing workers of their rights to join a union, citing confusion among businesses about whether the rule applied to them.

Today, the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, on behalf of hundreds of employers and associations representing millions of workplaces in every Congressional District in the nation lauded House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline’s introduction of the Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act and urged the House of Representatives to immediately pass the legislation.

Today, the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace joined a lawsuit recently filed by the National Association of Manufacturers to block an ill-advised rule by the out-of-control National Labor Relations Board.

In many ways, Boeing should be a boon to President Barack Obama. In a faltering economy, the aerospace titan opened a $750 million factory in South Carolina and hired thousands of workers to build the world’s most fuel-efficient commercial jet. But instead, it’s become a drag on his job creation agenda and a boon for candidates seeking the GOP presidential nomination.

In the last two weeks, three major employer groups have filed federal lawsuits against the National Labor Relations Board, saying it overstepped its bounds Aug. 25 when it set new regulations requiring employers to hang the posters, which inform employees that they have the legal right to form unions

Broad Employer Base Seeks Withdrawal of Harmful Proposed Rule WASHINGTON, D.C. // SEPTEMBER 21, 2011 // Today, the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace and hundreds of employer organizations filed comments telling the Department of Labor to withdraw its seriously flawed proposed rule that would diminish or deny employer access to legal counsel and employees’ ability […]

The Labor Department is expected to soon finalize new “persuader regulations” that would force labor lawyers, consultants and specialty firms to publicly disclose all of their financial and personal information.

President Obama has so far come down firmly on both sides of the debate over the National Labor Relations Board’s attempt to stop Boeing from building airplanes in South Carolina. A vote in the House yesterday may finally force his hand.

CDW Calls on Senate to Immediately Pass the “Protecting Jobs from Government Interference Act” WASHINGTON, D.C. // SEPTEMBER 15, 2011 // Today, Coalition for a Democratic Workplace chairman Geoffrey Burr issued the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2587, the Protecting Jobs from Government Interference Act sponsored by Rep. Tim Scott, […]

You have to wonder about a federal agency that sticks it to an American manufacturer creating thousands of good-paying jobs inside the nation’s borders instead of overseas.

The National Labor Relations Board’s recent rule requiring virtually every employer in America to post a notice describing its employees’ rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) is reflective of two disturbing trends at the NLRB: first, a myopic and partisan focus on increasing unionization by whatever means, including bold exercises of authority not within the agency’s statutory mandate; and second, a concomitant disregard of protected employee rights to refrain from union activity.