Just in time for Labor Day, the National Labor Relations Board is making sure that unemployment remains high in America. Following its attack on Boeing for opening a new plant in South Carolina, and new proposals for quickie union elections, the board will now require employers to put up 11-by-17-inch posters informing workers of their right to unionize.
Just in time for Labor Day, the Obama administration gave Big Labor a big ol’ smooch in the form of two more monumentally unfair, anti-worker, and anti-jobs decisions by the National Labor Relations Board. Not to be left out, the New York Times planted a big, wet one on the outgoing NLRB chair. And taken together, Big Labor and the Obama administration are giving our economy the kiss of the death.
Obama Admin Rolls Dice With Jobs, Plays Risky Economic Game WASHINGTON, D.C. // AUGUST 30, 2011 // Today, President Obama’s National Labor Relations Board issued two stunningly unfair, anti-growth decisions as former NLRB chair Wilma Liebman’s term expired. The Coalition for a Democratic Workplace warned the apparently rushed decisions will harm employees, employers, and America’s […]
CDW chairman Geoffrey Burr said, “We are disappointed that the NLRB has ignored a major outpouring of public comments by thousands of employers regarding its attempts to tip the scales on behalf of Big Labor and move forward with a new and controversial regulatory burden. “
The Coalition for a Democratic Workplace submitted official comments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and reiterated its request that the agency withdraw its anti-employee, job-killing proposed rule.
The National Labor Relations Board’s refusal to comply with a congressional subpoena could lead to the disbarment of the NLRB attorneys working on the case against the Boeing Co., House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa wrote in a letter to the labor agency.
Union organizers are still licking their wounds over the inability to get Congress to pass the Employee Free Choice Act. They haven’t given up, however. They have regrouped and are counting on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to give them what Congress would not. And, with the addition of two new very pro-union Democrats on the NLRB, the effort to make sweeping EFCA-like changes to established election procedures has been given a second lease on life.
The National Labor Relations Board is hurrying to push through a raft of decisions by year’s end, when a pair of vacant board seats could leave an important part of the agency hobbled indefinitely.
The California Republican announced Monday that he has subpoenaed the NLRB for documents related to the matter, claiming that NLRB’s actions could be a “job-killing precedent.” NLRB claims Boeing broke federal labor laws.
Government encroachments typically come as a wolf in sheep’s clothing, Justice Antonin Scalia once observed, but occasionally they are brazen—then, the “wolf comes as a wolf.” The Obama administration recently proposed a pair of rules to help unions win workplace elections. One rule is obviously a wolf. The other is a pretty creepy looking sheep.
House oversight committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican, issued a subpoena to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and to the NLRB’s general counsel.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Rep. Tim Scott (R-SC) this week proposed legislation that would require all decisions to form unions, stay in unions and go on strike to be made by secret ballot, and prevent unions from spending dues on political activities without the written consent of workers.
Union organizers reportedly are telling South Carolina Boeing workers they’ll halt a National Labor Relations Board action to shut their plant as long as the workers join their union. What contempt for workers!
Sometime soon, the House is slated to vote on a bill (The Protecting Jobs From Government Interference Act, H.R. 2587) that would prohibit the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from forcing a business to shut down, relocate or transfer employment.
The letter reads, in part, “we urge you to support the Protecting Jobs from Government Interference Act and to use every tool available to stop these rogue agencies from implementing policies to appease a single special interest at the expense of workers, businesses and our economy.”
The perception of our current government in the eyes of businessmen and women is simply this: The government is against us. Leading the charge against American business is the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
Republicans on the House workforce committee passed a bill Thursday that would bar the government from dictating where companies can do business – taking direct aim at the National Labor Relations Board’s complaint that Boeing Co. illegally shifted work from union plants in Washington state to a new nonunion facility in South Carolina.
CDW Asks Legislators to Pass Critical Jobs Bill WASHINGTON, D.C. // July 20, 2011 // Today, the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace thanked legislators in the House of Representatives for introducing and scheduling marking up for the Protecting Jobs from Government Interference Act (H.R. 2587). The law would ensure that job creators can choose where […]
The proposal is “designed to deprive employers of representation,” Charles Cohen, an attorney at Morgan Lewis and Bockius LLP, said in testimony prepared for the hearing. He represents the Washington-based Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, which calls itself an alliance of workers and employers opposed to federal legislation making unionization easier.
Long before the federal government’s unprecedented attack on Boeing began, President Obama’s National Labor Relations Board launched itself on a crash course with our country’s economic recovery. The first step came in the nomination of Craig Becker, and, as he pushes the federal government into uncharted territory to bail out Big Labor during Monday’s NLRB hearing, we are reminded why nominations matter for public policy.