Obama NLRB Eliminates Secret Ballot Elections – Gives Union Thugs Free Rein to Terrorize American Workers
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, August 31, 2011, 5:44 AM
More hope and change…
The Obama National Labor Relations Board moved to eliminate secret ballot election protections this week. The NLRB removed barriers that enabled workers to protect themselves from union bosses’ bullying and coercive tactics.
Matthew Boyle at The Daily Caller reported:
On Tuesday the National Labor Relations Board announced three new decisions that industry experts say will likely hurt the economy and cost American jobs.
The first and likely most controversial NLRB ruling overturned a 2007 decision that gave workers nationwide the right to protect themselves from union bosses’ bullying and coercive tactics with secret ballot elections.
Via its newly-decided Lamons Gasket case, the NLRB eliminated the 2007 Dana Corp ruling, which the National Right to Work Foundation said protected workers from “coercive practices” union organizers often used to “bully or mislead employees.”
The Dana Corp. decision allowed workers the opportunity to request a secret ballot election within a 45-day window following a “card-check” organizing effort. Card-check organizing efforts are when union bosses try to get workers they’re targeting to sign cards indicating they want to have a union election.
What union bosses often neglect to tell workers is that if enough workers sign cards, there’s no need for an election. They’d already be unionized.
“The Obama Labor Board’s ruling to kill the Dana Corp. precedent that allows workers a secret ballot vote to kick out a union that gained control of the workplace in an abusive ‘card check’ campaign adds to an already exhaustive list of paybacks from the Obama Administration to Big Labor,” NRTW Foundation president Mark Mix said in a statement. “Big Labor and its allies have launched a full-scale assault on worker freedom and the Obama Administration is working tirelessly to appease them through bureaucratic means after they failed in Congress.”
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Militant Conservative commented:
Whats next ink wells to color your finger??
good gawd.
gus commented:
We have Congress for reason.
Bill Mitchell commented:
I wish the American people had known exactly what Obama meant by “Audacity”.
Stories like these make me realize that Obama already considers the 2012 election lost and is on a scorched earth kamikaze mission to destroy as much of our capitalist system as he can before he is given the boot.
Kenny Solomon commented:
……and most workplaces ban all forms of self-defense and any weaponry while on their property and/or ‘on the clock’.
I’m just sayin’.
Glad I started my own business and I’m the only employee.
Maybe I should try and unionize myself and kick my own arse for saying no.
Kenny Solomon
Typical bitterly clinging terrorist Hobbit hissing with feral cattiness.
Tool up, it’s coming…… You know…… “It”.
MamaGrizzly commented:
Honestly speaking: we need protection from other Americans, such as union criminals. Never forget that Americans can be just as ugly or worse than people from other countries if given the chance.
Obama REALLY wants to give them that chance: recruits for his “national security force.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s
Does anyone here think he’s given up on that goal? Answer NO. TSA, Union, black, La Raza, and Moslem “vicitims” of America’s “racism,” — all are candidates. Open borders and in fact, no borders in the Americas are the way to realize his dream.
The above video is one of the most clear examples of Obama’s aspirations to be Dictator of the USA. Study his face, his eyes, his chest. He is NO American president.
And watch out for other candidates being wolves in sheep’s clothing too. Never mind the talk. When Obama was campaigning his speeches sounded Reaganesque–he didn’t deliver on his promises and goals as stated, but he got the White House–he “won”–and that’s all that mattered. He knew he could destroy America economically if he won.
So . . . how’s he doin’ on that Maoist/Marxist goal of his? Hmmmm?
Sam Stone commented:
I have never seen a President of the US ever before govern by proxy as much as this one has. If he cannot pass his legislation he goes behind the lawful means to accomplish his socialist goals.
There must be someone out there to stop this usurpation of the constitution and the laws of the US.
Has any other President done so much without Congressional approval?
MamaGrizzly commented:
#2 August 31, 2011 at 9:40 am
gus commented:
We have Congress for reason.
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Right–which is WHY Obama is trying to divide Congress–get them sparing with each other rather than him, by creating his special task force on the economy–those “so brilliant” that they can make policy for the rest of Congress.
Sam Stone commented:
gus commented: We have Congress for reason.
Or we have a President of Treason!
StrangernFiction commented:
Stories like these make me realize that Obama already considers the 2012 election lost and is on a scorched earth kamikaze mission to destroy as much of our capitalist system as he can before he is given the boot.
I fear it is much worse than that.
MAJ Mike commented:
I’ve never seen a President rule so much by executive fiat. Could it be that THE FIRST CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR of the US slept through those classes on separation of powers in government?
havok commented:
Card Check by Executive order Fiat…
Lady’s and Gentlemen.. we are Officially under a dictatorship. Representative Gov’t is no longer governing our federal Gov’t..and your voice (As if we didn’t know)..is meaningless.
Ausonius commented:
And again, what could not be obtained through legislation, he performs through the bureaucracy.
Mr. Perry, should you become our next POTUS, I pray that you will deny yourself the illegitimate power of this sort and accept that all legislative powers are in the hands of Congress and not in the hands of the executive. Should you do this, you would defang a great amount of abuse to the people. You would also eliminate the purpose of a great deal of the Fed govt and the hundreds of agencies exercising illegitimate power.
There is really not enough said, even amongst conservative circles, about the flatly unconstitutional nature of current executive branch power that is wielded through “regulation” that carry all of the coercive force of a law, but without the name, in order to dupe the simple-minded into accepting it as something other than a mechanism to frustrate the Constitution.
Militant Conservative commented:
Hey KS, I inventoried the 5.56 stores. Got 5K and 1000 is in mags already.
“IT” is coming I can feel it in my bones.
powder is dry
bg commented:
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Obama in Absract
now go back to sleep so he can eat in peace.. /s/
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Ausonius commented:
This also explains the announcement this past week of Trumpka and co. stating they were no longer married to the democrats.
I suspected it was cover for something, and this explains it: make a big announcement that you are very unhappy with the administration to provide the administration cover when the backdoor card check occurs, so they can say they do not enjoy the tight relationship with the unions.
More communism in sheep’s clothing.
The mask is becoming tattered and revealing more and more of the wolf though.
These people are moved by evil, for evil purposes.
Not a moment passes when they are not conniving and scheming.
Mad Hatter commented:
I agree with what everyone is saying. Obama is not shying away from showing he’s a Marxist. He knows that the Alinsky Media will cover for him, never criticize or question him, and will protect him at all cost.
My question is, where are the Republicans on this? Where’s the great leader of the House David Boehner and his statement on this? Where’s Perry, Romney, and Bachmann on this?
donh commented:
Didn’t I see in the news last week a pair of retirements of long standing leaders from the NLRB ? that was fast ! Our state democrate governor did not like the results of a statewide employee union vote so union bosses changed the bylaws and took a second vote…then some police officer no votes got fired.
Kenny Solomon commented:
MC – About half that .223 and ‘a bit’ more 9mike mike and 12ga.
avery commented:
As Andy Strein said we see have they vote and we know there they live.
Bert commented:
Another day, another blow against the rule of law.
S. Wolf commented:
Oops.. wrong post, right comment. Re Obama-labor-Hitler.
Sorry to Live in Illinois commented:
#19 Avery:
I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and an opportunity to retype what you wrote because as it is written, it sounds like something Al Sharpton said.
LOL.
HarryT commented:
The time has come for the business community to reject and ignore the OCriminal Administration and the Federal Government. The US Government is out of control and we must stop it if we are to survive as a “prosperous” people.
gee! commented:
Holder is Obama’s enabler he finds loop-holes around congress and the laws for Obummer’s mission to destory this country from the inside out.
bg commented:
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Obama is an IslaMarxist..
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their ideologies are joined at the hip..
[please click on & follow connecting links..]
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Conservative Ken commented:
bg
I’m blaming you cause my bookmark tabs are a freakin mile long..lol
sheesh
MamaGrizzly commented:
The Nazi credo that the individual belongs to the state also applies to business. Some businesses have been confiscated outright, on other what amounts to a capital tax has been levied. Profits have been strictly controlled. Some idea of the increasing Governmental control and interference in business could be deduced from the fact that 80% of all building and 50% of all industrial orders in Germany originated last year with the Government. Hard-pressed for food- stuffs as well as funds, the Nazi regime has taken over large estates and in many instances collectivized agriculture, a procedure fundamentally similar to Russian Communism.”
(Source: Time Magazine; Jaunuary 2, 1939.)
Thanks wolf (above). Organized Labor loyal to Obama is the main goal. Does everyone know that Mein Kampf is the most-read book across the Moslem Middle East? You know–Obama’s “people.”
This is all playbook stuff. And America dozes . . . . . .
MamaGrizzly commented:
continued . . .
Hitler setup the Labour Front. Both employers and employees joined it. According to the National Labour Law of January 20, 1934, the state would exert direct influence and control over all business employing more than twenty persons. In other words, both employers and employees were put under the control of the government.’
“We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions.” –Adolf Hitler
(Speech of May 1, 1927. Quoted by Toland, 1976, p. 306)
Sounds like Obama all the way.
Patty commented:
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/06/21/obamas-nlrb-pushes-snap-elections-for-union-gain/
Obama’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has been aggressively reinterpreting the law to foist unions on workers—whether they want them or not. The Board famously filed charges against Boeing for creating jobs at a nonunion plant in South Carolina. Today the Board announced its most aggressive move yet: snap elections.
Union organizers do not impartially advocate workers’ best interests. They are salesmen. They get paid to persuade workers to become dues-paying union members. Unions may legally use any number of misleading tactics to win worker support. Some organizers rely on aggressive sales tactics such as “SPIN selling.” SPIN stands for Situation, Problem, Implication, and Need payoff–the four emotional states through which organizers lead employees in order to secure a signed union-authorization card. Through it organizers persuade workers that a union will solve their problems at work—whether or not a union could actually help. Unions also train organizers to avoid the potential downsides to unionization, like strike histories or dues increases.
DittoGirl commented:
If they think business is just going to take this, I think he better have another thought coming.
Now every business man or woman better be applying for and getting trusted employees to carry. Its about to get very ugly.
I couldnt imagine opening a business, working my fanny off to not only get it to be successful, but the cash it takes to do this, and then have some thug come in and tell me what my employees will be paid, and specifically what they will do, or not do.
John Boehnor better grow a set, because if Congress doesnt impeach this fraud this nation is going to erupt.
bg commented:
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Conservative Ken #27 August 31, 2011 at 10:52 am
sucked up by Obama’s black hole machine..
which is why i try & keep files of as many links & postings as i can..
however, locating exactly what i’m looking for in said
files at any given moment is quite another matter..
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SSBN 627(B) commented:
“When I am President, card check will be the law of the land…” words to that effect. Obama, speaking to AFL/CIO in 2008.
By any means necessary, right, BO?
You piece of sh!t.
MamaGrizzly commented:
People LOVED Hitler. He was very popular. Such a nice guy and all . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFbMHezLAA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhVM0HmGado&feature=related
The COURTS and CONGRESS must reign in the excesses of the EXECUTIVE branch.
Will they?
tommy mc donnell commented:
another day another step closer to the soviet union.
let you congress people know you oppose this.
bg commented:
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in case this is new to you, sorry C K..
re: #25 August 31, 2011 at 10:41 am bg
NAZIS, COMMUNISTS, ARAB NATIONALIST
TERRORISTS: ONE CAMP, ONE KAMPF
["Our materialistic conception of the World did not prevent us from seen [=
seeing; error in Carlos' original], years ago, that a new kind of militant, the
Islamic Revolutionist has joined the vanguard of Revolution, of which he
now is the spear-head.
“This new state of affairs was not accepted by most
fellow revolutionaries at the time, out of dogmatism.”
Genoud died in June 1996 and Carlos was convicted of murder in a French
court in December 1997. However, “the Islamic Revolutionist” is now
leaving his own trail of blood along the track trod by Hitler and Husseini.
Can the Communist Left today be seen as other than a partner
in the mortal threats hanging over humanity and civilization?]
believe that question is no longer valid, as it has
been long since been affirmatively answered..
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tommy mc donnell commented:
next will be no secret ballot for public office. that will pass congress 435 to 0.
bg commented:
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re: #36
it has been long since = it has long since
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JoyO commented:
If Congress cannot stop the funding immediately for these “regulatory” agencies that are taking over the responsibilities of Congress (i.e., NLRB, EPA, DOE, Health and Human Resources), I hope that, at a minimum, Congress takes the Executive Branch’s illegal actions to the Supreme Court.
Andreas K. commented:
1938 there was an “election” in Austria over whether Austria should enter the Reich or not. The “election” was like this:
You had a ballot with two circles. One, the big one, was for YES. The small one was for NO. There were no voting booths. You had to make your cross in front of the “officials”, who, by this time, were all Nazis. There were SA guards in the room. The commander of the operation would tell you “This is where you make your mark” and point at the big circle. The people who refused to do so, were beaten up by the SA guards.
This was another “no secret ballot election”.
tommy mc donnell commented:
i just called the cadaver’s(frank lautenberg)office and explained that i was opposed to what the NLRB did and want the senator to oppose it. i was then informed in broken english that this was senator lautenberg’s office as if he has nothing to do with this. the united soviet states of america has arrived.
S. Wolf commented:
MamaGrizzly #34
re Will they? It may well come down to Clarence Thomas which would be a delicious irony, would it not..
‘If Toobin’s revionist take is correct, (and I defer to his knowledge of the direction of modern constitutional thought) it means that liberal America has spent a generation mocking a Black man as an ignorant fool, even as constitutional scholars stand in growing amazement at the intellectual audacity, philosophical coherence and historical reflection embedded in his judicial work.
Toobin is less interested in exploring why liberal America has been so blind for so long to the force of Clarence Thomas’ intellect than in understanding just what Thomas has achieved in his lonely trek across the wastes of Mordor. And what he finds is that Thomas has been pioneering the techniques and the ideas that could not only lead to the court rejecting all or part of President Obama’s health legislation; the ideas and strategies Thomas has developed could conceivably topple the constitutionality of the post New Deal state.’
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/08/28/new-blue-nightmare-clarence-thomas-and-the-amendment-of-doom/
revionist = revisionist, error in original.
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
Keep this in mind: All this and more can be fixed in November of 2012.
Throw out Obie and throw out as many Democrats in Congress as possible. Do this, and we will be on the road to a real recovery.
owl commented:
Why do the Repubs in Congress bother to show up if they can not stop this WH’s criminal activity?
Just say ‘I quit, you win, we have no lawyers and zero power.’ We are also chicken livered and gentlemen/ladies. Oh, and thank you very much.
gosh! commented:
This is about control , Obama and his thugs are working over time to control everything, if they can control your work,healthcare and food they can control the population.Botch-gun-runner was to strict your gun rights until it back-fire on them ,look for them to do it any way with out congress. Get ready folks
S. Wolf commented:
Then there is an issue of freedom of religion..
‘Which schools are Catholic and which are not? And who decides?
Even the Church’s modern-day efforts to assert itself as the arbiter — beginning with the 1990 apostolic constitution “Ex Corde Ecclesiae” — have proven somewhat controversial, despite the clear reading of canon law: “[N]o university may bear the title or name Catholic university without the consent of the competent ecclesiastical authority.”
But if it is controversial even for the Church to decide this question, how much more controversial is it for the government to interfere?
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), a federal panel that arbitrates disputes between workers, unions and businesses, has lately put itself in the business of deciding which schools are really Catholic.
Traditionally, Catholic schools have been exempted from the National Labor Relations Act, and therefore from the NLRB’s control. Because mandatory collective bargaining on work rules could compromise an institution’s religious freedom, courts have held that their workforces cannot unionize under the act’s provisions.
In two recent cases, the NLRB’s regional directors have circumvented this obstacle by holding that Catholic schools — namely, Manhattan College in New York and St. Xavier University in Chicago — are not, in fact, Catholic.
The decisions are still subject to appeal, but for now the Church says these schools are Catholic, and the government says they’re not.’
http://cst-phl.com/whats-a-catholic-school-national-labor-relations-board-shouldnt-decide-p2657-84.htm
TechGuy commented:
The U.S. Constitution gives me the right to associate freely.
The government cannot impose upon me the burden of paying an organization to act as an intermediary between my employer and me.
Unions are unconstitutional. Employers should have the freedom to hire whomever they wish.
It’s time to ignore unconstitutional mandates.
Mama Grizzly commented:
Thanks for the post re: Clarence Thomas , wolf. Some good news at last. I cannot believe what the Obama agenda/people are doing the country.
S. Wolf commented:
Mama Grizzly
Me neither, and that is just the stuff we know about and still can’t believe like Gunrunner, Muslim infiltration, TSA groping, moratorium on oil drilling, suing states, not enforcing federal laws, etc.,.. what about stuff we don’t know about yet.. The SC will be busy for a while.
drjohn commented:
Couldn’t get Card Check honestly, eh?
F**k Obama.
Mom said honesty is the best policy.
burt commented:
Frankline Roosevelt was a dictator! You need to learn the truth about this man and not the lies told to you by Google! I not trust any man named Sergey. Income tax raise to 100% for anyone who made over $25000 a year. It was done by Executive Order. No law ever passed through Congress.