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One more Big Labor Payback Before Senator-Elect Brown becomes Senator Brown

On February 4, 2010, By Post

Racing against the clock, Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pushed through another Obama Big Labor nominee, Patricia Smith, before Senator-Elect Scott Brown becomes a Senator. Reid won this race, see the Senate votes here.

In addition, Reid is prepared to add radical SEIU & AFL-CIO lawyer, Craig Becker to the list of Obama nominees approved before Senator Brown arrives.

As the new U.S. Solicitor of Labor, President Obama’s nominee M. Patricia Smith will control the largest civilian pool of government lawyers after the Justice Department.

Then New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer appointed Smith Commissioner of the New York State Department of Labor (NYDOL). Having spent her entire working life as a government employee, Smith brings only bureaucratic experience to the table.

As NYDOL Commissioner, Smith used her position and federal funds to override a state hiring freeze to hire a politically connected union organizer as a state employee. (more…)

Act Now — Senate trying to Beat Senator Brown's Swearing-in

On February 3, 2010, By Post

The Washington Examiner catches the Senate rushing pro-labor agenda items to the floor before Senator-Elect Scott Brown is sworn into the esteemed body:

… the Senate is again trying to perform as many favors for Big Labor as it can before newly elected Republican Senator Scott Brown is seated and Democrats lose their supermajority. Senate Democrats are now trying to rush through the nomination of Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Becker would be the first union-employed lawyer to be confirmed by the Senate to the NLRB and is very cozy with and has received many paychecks from big politically active unions like the SEIU and AFL-CIO.

Tagged with: AFL-CIO • Andrew Stern • Card Check • Craig Becker • NLRB • NLRB Nominations • Salting • SEIU
Posted in: ACORN, Big Labor Ethics, Card Check, Economics, Exclusive Representation, Forced Dues, Forced-Dues for Politics, Government Grants to Unions, Labor Organizations, Monopoly Bargaining, Obama Administration, Organizing, Personnel Alert, PLA, Section 14-B Taft-Hartley, SEIU, So-called "Fair Share", Union boss power

Big Labor's Top Forced Unionism Lawyer Ready to Take Seat on The Board

On January 28, 2010, By Post

The Committee was forwarded an e-mail that, in part, read:

We have just learned from our contacts in Washington that the HELP committee [U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions] has postponed other scheduled business and will conduct a hearing on the [Craig] Becker [National Labor Relations Board] nomination next Tuesday at 4 p.m.

– Martin F. Payson

The NLRB Becker Fight “Shakes and Bakes” Again

On January 26, 2010, By Post

Radical Big Labor lawyer Craig Becker has been renominated to that National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) by President Obama.

The National Right to Work Committee has opposed the Becker from the start and other groups are joining the chorus.

The Committee’s Becker Alert highlights the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) Founder Wade Rathke’s ringing endorsement of Obama’s Becker nomination. Rathke wrote, “Here’s a big win no matter how you shake and bake it: Craig Becker being nominated for a seat on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)!

Becker, an associate general counsel to both the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the AFL-CIO, will likely support measures to eliminate a workers right to a secret ballot through executive action.

Tagged with: AFL-CIO • Card Check • NLRB • NLRB Nominations • SEIU
Posted in: Arbitration, Card Check, Exclusive Representation, Forced Dues, Government Grants to Unions, Monopoly Bargaining, Obama Administration, Organizing, PLA, Prevailing Wage, Public Employees, Section 14-B Taft-Hartley, SEIU, So-called "Fair Share", Union boss power

Big Labor for Coakley — It's lonely out there!

On January 19, 2010, By Post

Massachusetts Senate candidate Martha Coakley’s campaign was so dependent on big labor, “it was all we had,” one Democrat political consultant said.

Senate Sends ACORN’s Rathke Endorsed NLRB Nominee Back to Obama

On January 5, 2010, By Post

Rather than carryover National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) nominee and current AFL-CIO and Service Employees International Union lawyer Craig Becker until next year like most of president Obama’s nominees, the U.S. Senate sent a message back to the President about his nominations. While not a severed horse head in his bed … it is like the canary in the coal-mine.

Right after the Becker nomination, The National Right to Work Committee posted this President Obama Personnel Alert video regarding Becker (link here) along with the Committee’s Becker Alert report (link here).

The report highlights the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) Founder Wade Rathke’s ringing endorsement of Obama’s Becker nomination. Rathke wrote, “Here’s a big win no matter how you shake and bake it: Craig Becker being nominated for a seat on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)!” (more…)

Tagged with: AFL-CIO • Card Check • NLRB • NLRB Nominations • SEIU
Posted in: Card Check, Labor Organizations, Legislation, Police Fire Monopoly Bargaining, Section 14-B Taft-Hartley, SEIU

Petition: Sen. DeMint Asks America to Help stop the expansion of forced unionism.

On May 6, 2009, By Post

Join Senator Jim DeMint and the National Right to Work Committee in the critical struggle to protect individual employee freedom by signing this petition to the Congress urging them to oppose Big Labor’s destructive legislative agenda aimed at forcing millions more American workers into paying union dues or fees against their will. Congress must be made aware that the American people do not support giving union bosses more coercive power to collect forced dues.

Please sign this petition today and urge Congress to oppose the Card Check Forced Unionism Bill and other union boss power grabs.

Tagged with: Card Check • NLRB
Posted in: Card Check, Economics, Forced Dues, Forced-Dues for Politics, Labor Organizations, Legislation, National Right to Work Act, Obama Administration, Police Fire Monopoly Bargaining, Section 14-B Taft-Hartley

Top Ten List

On December 23, 2008, By Linda Staulcup

Big Labor’s wish list continues to grow and Human Events newspaper has documented the Big Labor Bosses’ “Top Ten” agenda items. The list includes the notorious Card Check Scam Bill; repeal of our Right to Work, and the outrageous “Patriot Employer Act,” which mandates tax hikes on companies who don’t agree to “labor neutrality.”

The list, however, fails to mention organized labor’s latest crusade — a trillion dollar public works spending program.

Tagged with: Card Check
Posted in: Card Check, Forced-Dues for Politics, National Right to Work Act, Police Fire Monopoly Bargaining, Section 14-B Taft-Hartley

Big Labor for Coakley — It's lonely out there!

Senate Sends ACORN’s Rathke Endorsed NLRB Nominee Back to Obama

Petition: Sen. DeMint Asks America to Help stop the expansion of forced unionism.

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