Right To Work Witness Speaks Out; NRTW Exposes NLRB Card Check Plans

On July 10, 2011, By NRTW Committee Staff

Rep. John Kline’s (R-MN) Education and Workforce Committee probed the unelected Obama-appointed National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) ill-conceived ‘Ambush Elections’ proposals that will negatively impact employees and bring Card Check Forced Unionism closer to reality.  Though  most of the news related to hearing was swallowed by the continuing increase in Obama’s unemployment numbers report on Friday, the hearing should not be overlooked.

DANA employee Larry Getts (a NRTW provided witness) testified that he and his fellow co-workers came under attack by union operatives during a UAW Card Check campaign.  He appealed to congress to stop the NLRB’s planned quickie elections that would leave workers unable to investigate their options during an extremely short time period that will include union organizers flooding employees with lies.  

On the same day of the Ed & Workforce hearing, the National Right To Work distributed copies of David A. Bego’s The Devil At My Doorstep, a firsthand account of SEIU’s three-year attempt to organize Bego’s employees through intimidation and without allowing his employees a secret ballot election. 

National Right To Work President Mark Mix included the following explanation of the NLRB’s plans with a copy of The Devil At My Doorstep book that the National Right To Work Committee gave to members of congress: (more…)

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Big Labor’s Manchurian Candidate: Rep. Thad McCotter

On July 5, 2011, By NRTW Committee Staff

The Republican presidential field continues to grow but the recent announcement that House Rep. Thaddeus McCotter would join the race left most people scratching their heads. What does McCotter bring to the race? The most pro-forced unionism voting record of any of the candidates is what.

McCotter voted for the Card Check Forced Unionism bill.

McCotter supports legislation that seeks to bail out union pension funds and put taxpayers on the hook for $160 billion in unfunded union pension liabilities.

McCotter supported the Big Labor bailouts of the car companies.

And in return for the favors, Big Labor PACs have contributed nearly $80,000 to the McCotter campaign.

Folks who are concerned about the forced unionism power of Big Labor can do a lot better than McCotter, but perhaps they can not do much worse.

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Boston Herald: NLRB’s ongoing card-check one, two punch

On June 27, 2011, By NRTW Committee Staff

Reading the tea leaves, the Boston Herald editorial staff see the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) institutionalizing card-check and by-passing congress. Primarily based  on the NLRB’s actions in the Boeing case and its new election regulation, the Herald smells a coordinated effort by the Board to bring about card-check forced unionism through its rulings and regs.

It’s as plain as the nose on your face that the National Labor Relations Board, controlled by Democrats, wants to tilt the union-management playing field further toward unions.

Unions could get not get “card check” (which would make union recognition mandatory upon presentation of cards signed by a majority of workers) passed when Democrats controlled both houses of Congress. Now their friends at the NLRB are turning to plan B.

The board asked for comment on, among other things, proposals to shorten the �interval between a union’s petition for a representation election and the holding of the vote. Coupled with the board’s recent attempt to keep Boeing Corp. from opening an aircraft assembly plant in South Carolina, the proposals should make the board’s anti-employer slant clear.

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NLRB Reverses Let’s Employees Speak, well sort of

On June 21, 2011, By NRTW Committee Staff

From the National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation:

Worker Advocate Blasts Labor Board Ruling to Allow Charleston Workers Minimal Say in Boeing Case 

Big Labor watchdog slams ruling as insufficient; ploy to quietly sweep workers’ stories under the rug

Washington, DC (June 20, 2011) – The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in Washington, D.C. has ruled three Charleston-area Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) employees are allowed to intervene, albeit minimally, in the NLRB’s high-profile case against Boeing.

With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation, North Charleston Boeing employees Dennis Murray, Cynthia Ramaker, and Meredith Going, Sr. filed a motion earlier this month to intervene in the NLRB’s unprecedented case targeting the company for locating production of some of its 787 Dreamliner airplanes in South Carolina, in part due to its popular Right to Work law.

An NLRB Administrative Law Judge in San Francisco denied the workers’ request and the workers were forced to file an emergency appeal with the national Board in Washington, D.C. The Board in D.C. has ruled that the employees can only file a brief in the case once the hearings, occurring in Seattle, Washington, are concluded. (more…)

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Workers Used as Big Labor Guinea Pigs

On May 26, 2011, By NRTW Committee Staff

Farm workers in California are about to lose their right to privacy and their right to a secret ballot union election in one fell swoop.

Farm workers, exempt from federal labor law, will be subject to the state’s version of the Card Check Forced Unionism Bill. The proposed legislation goes beyond the effective abolition of a worker’s right to a secret ballot in elections for union representation. The bill requires employers to provide unions with detailed information about their employees.

This information will be used to intimidate and harass workers.

Caesar Chavez, the labor organizer icon, supported secret ballot elections for workers — Too bad his predecessors are not as principled.

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Tables Turned on UNITE-HERE Bosses

On April 7, 2011, By NRTW Committee Staff

The Hyatt Corporation has called for a secret ballot election on whether to unionize. That’s right, a major corporation has called for a unionization vote. Tom Mooney at the Washington Examiner has the story of how the company sought to give their workers a voice and a choice only to be rebuffed by the union and the National Labor Relations Board.

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Big Labor’s Secretary of Labor Questioned by Congress

On February 17, 2011, By NRTW Committee Staff

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Former Big Labor front-group Treasurer and Obama’s current Labor Secretary Hilda Solis attempted to the play the Washington game of not answering questions while trying to ramble-on long enough to use up the questioner’s time.  At least that is how it appeared yesterday during a congressional hearing, U.S. House Education & Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline and members such as Representatives Kristi Noem, David Roe, Timothy Walberg, Scott DesJarlais, Larry Bucshon, Todd Rokita, and Dennis Ross put several questions to Solis who often provided long, rambling, and nonresponsive answers.

Early on, the National Right to Work Committee exposed Solis’ clear conflicts-of-interest in its Obama Administration Personnel Alert.  

The NRTW Legal Foundation has filed several inquiries and comments with the Labor Department concerning rulemakings that have allowed union officers to hide hundreds of millions of dollars of forced-union dues and potential conflicts-of-interest payments.  In fact, the NRTW Legal Defense Foundation is currently suing the Department for its failure to comply with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

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House Amendments Would Protect Workers From Big Labor

On February 16, 2011, By Greg Mourad

A number of House Republicans have introduced amendments to the Continuing Resolution now on the House Floor(H.R. 1) that would serve to protect rank-and-file workers from Big Labor and and their hand-picked Bureaucrats in the Obama Administration.

Tom Price (GA-06) introduced Amendments 578 and 410, to de-fund the radical National Labor Relations Board (NRLB).  Ever since President Obama’s recess appointment of SEIU lawyer Craig Becker to the NLRB, the Board has been on a crusade to advance the tyrannical power of Big Labor to force itself on unwilling workers.  Through efforts to promote “Card Check,” make desertification elections harder, and claim powers beyond their statutory authority, Becker and a majority of the Board have showed an arrogant contempt for the rule of law.  This amendment would put them out of business.

Tim Huelskamp (KS-01) introduced Amendment 255, to prevent the NLRB from advancing Big Labor’s “Card Check” agenda.  Congress refused to pass the “Card Check” bill last year, But Big Labor hasn’t given up on the idea, and is now quietly moving to implement as much of that agenda through the NLRB bureaucracy as it can.   This amendment will be helpful in preventing them from doing so.   No worker should ever be forced to accept a union as their bargaining agent, but if it’s going to be done, workers must at least have the protection of a secret ballot vote, so they can vote their consciences without a union thug looking over their shoulders.

Frank Guinta (NH-01) introduced Amendment 166, that would prohibit funding for contracts under union-only “project labor agreements,” which discriminate against the overwhelming majority of the workforce that has chosen to work without a union.

Todd Rokita (IN-04) introduced Amendment 209, which would require union officials to do their union work on their own time, instead of on the taxpayer’s time.  It is an outrage, particularly in these difficult times, that we have been paying people for conducting the business of their unions instead of doing their jobs.

Everyone should contact their Congressman and ask him to support these amendments.

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