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Pick for Labor Board Opposed by Business

Wall Street Journal

Some of the same business groups President Barack Obama is courting with his regulatory review and support for a corporate-tax overhaul said Thursday they would fight his renomination of former union lawyer Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board.

Press Release

Becker Renomination Pits President’s Words, Actions

The Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW) decried President Obama’s renomination of Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board and warned that the decision has put the president’s recent statements on the importance of jobs and unburdening business directly at odds with his actions.

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Obama Uses Normally-neutral Board to Pay Back Unions

The Daily Caller

President Barack Obama’s administration continues its private sector unionization efforts, this time with the historically “politically neutral” National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). A newly proposed rule from the NLRB would require private sector companies to post employees’ rights under the National Labor Relations Act, the legislation that gives employees the “right” to unionize, in their […]

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As Obama Woos Business, NLRB Pushes Union Agenda

Investors Business Daily

Obama himself said in September that he would try to help unions via regulations rather than Congress, telling fans at a Fairfax, Va., rally that they just didn’t have the Senate votes for things like card check. Card check would let unions use a petition drive to organize, eliminating the NLRB-monitored secret ballot. Critics say that […]

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CDW In American Thinker: NLRB Shills For Card Check

American Thinker

Amidst a week of major events dominating the news landscape, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) dropped a bomb last Friday afternoon.  Apparently, the NLRB felt the need to flex some muscle and has threatened to sue four states over laws passed by voter referendum in November.  The laws in question would guarantee workers the […]

Editorial

Protect Workers From Union Bosses

Washington Times

Labor unions can’t persuade Congress to destroy workplace voting rights, but their Obama-appointed lackeys at the National Labor Relations Board do their dirty work anyway. Twice in the past six weeks, the NLRB has sided with union bosses over ordinary workers, smothering the ideal of secret elections.

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Labor Board Warns on Secret Ballots

Wall Street Journal

Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff said he was prepared to fight the NLRB. “If they want to sue, my attitude is, bring it on, because we think card-check violates federal constitution protections,” he said. A spokesman for South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson also said the state stood by its amendment, which was approved by […]

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NLRB Wasting Resources to Promote Card Check

CDW issued a statement in response to a threat by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to sue four states where voters passed ballot measures intended to guarantee the right to secret-ballots when employees decide whether or not to join a union

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Significant Labor Law Changes Will Bypass Congress

Washington Post

Employers should still expect significant changes, however, as the president will instead advance his regulatory agenda administratively through the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the issuance of executive orders. If you’re running a nonunion workplace today, these developments will make it easier for unions to organize your employees. Regardless of one’s personal feelings about […]

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U.S. Plans to Sue 4 States Over Laws Requiring Secret Ballots for Unionizing

New York Times

The National Labor Relations Board announced on Friday that it planned to sue Arizona, South Carolina, South Dakota and Utah in an effort to invalidate recently approved state constitutional amendments that prohibit private sector workers from choosing a union through a process known as card check.

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BigGovernment.com: Union Bosses Scheme to Be Girl Scouts’ Next ‘Tagalong’

Big Government

A BigGovernment.com blogger highlighted CDW’s amicus brief in the case known as Roundy’s. Click through to read more.

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RedState.com: Will the Union-Controlled NLRB Kick the Girl Scouts Out On the Streets?

RedState.com

RedState.com blogger LaborUnionReport highlighted CDW’s amicus brief in the case known as Roundy’s. The case has important ramifications for the property rights of employers.

Press Release

CDW Warns of Latest Union Scheme: Unfair Access

CDW filed an amicus brief with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on the crucial question of whether the federal government will demand that a business allow organized labor union representatives to trespass at the workplace in order to harass customers and employees and otherwise harm an employer’s business

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CDW Warns of Latest Union Scheme: Unfair Access

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President Makes Nominations to Labor Board Amid Increased NLRB Activism

Shopfloor.org

While it’s unclear how soon these nominations will be considered by the Senate, the confirmation hearings do provide the Senate with an opportunity to review much of the recent NLRB activity that has so alarmed employers. The Board is slated to make decisions in many key cases, including Lamons Gasket Company, which addresses issues with […]

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Obama Nominates Republican Terence Flynn to National Labor Relations Board

Bloomberg

President Barack Obama nominated Terence Flynn, a Republican, to the National Labor Relations Board, filling an open slot on the five-member agency that handles disputes between unions and companies.

Opinion Piece

Americans Dodge Unions, But Feds Insist On Them Anyway

Washington Examiner

People will be safe in 2011-12 from the Employee Free Choice Act, a union-supported bill that would take away workers’ rights to a secret ballot in union elections and impose mandatory contracts between newly unionized firms and workers. But the Obama-controlled National Labor Relations Board isn’t listening. It wants to do everything in its power […]

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Employees To Be Told of Right to Unionize

Wall Street Journal

The board Tuesday proposed a rule that would force employers to post notices informing workers of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act, including the right to join a union.

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CDW Lauds Sen. Brown’s New Secret-Ballot Position

Statement Brings Hope for Opposing Card Check Via Regulation WASHINGTON, D.C. // December 14, 2010 // Today, the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW) released the following statement in response to Sen. Sherrod Brown’s (D-OH) recent comments on the importance of secret ballot elections for leadership positions in the nation’s senior legislative chamber: "We welcome […]

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The Hill: Legislators, take note: Voters cross-check card check

The Hill

There was seemingly one loud message from last week’s election: Washington, get out of the way! But there were important footnotes in the voters’ pink slip for the last Congress, and incoming legislators would do well to heed the public’s desire for big government and big labor to step back and allow the free enterprise […]