Imagine a Supreme Court Justice being confirmed without a hearing. Well, in labor relations, the National Labor Relations Board is like the Supreme Court when it comes to hearing issues affecting the relationships between employers, employees and unions.
In two days, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (ironically called HELP) will be voting to confirm union radical Craig Becker’s nomination to the National Labor Relations Board.
This is being done without a hearing on Becker or his radical views.
Craig Becker is assistant general counsel to both the SEIU and AFL-CIO.
For background on Becker, go to LaborUnionReport’s blog on Becker see below, or go here
The Workforce Fairness Institute has posted an online petition (here) for people interested in stopping Becker from being confirmed to the NLRB.
There are only two days left, today and tomorrow, for people to take action.
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Once again Senate Republicans are swimming in that river in Egypt
civil truth (Diary) Monday, October 19th at 12:40PM EST (link)Just coasting along doing things the way they’ve always been done – in denial that radical changes are afoot.
With friends like these…
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
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Not quite like the USSC, the NLRB's decisions
Achance (Diary) Monday, October 19th at 12:49PM EST (link)can be appealed to the federal courts, where they are often overturned. It does take money and time however, and this Administration will make life a lving Hell for any companies or individuals that challenge it.
What a union run Board will do is make very harsh decisions and then tell the employer that if it surrenders, they’ll go easy. Can’t say I’ve never done the same thing.
In Vino Veritas
perhaps a bad analogy...
LaborUnionReport (Diary) Monday, October 19th at 10:59PM EST (link)Achance is right: The NLRB isn’t quite the Supreme Court, as the NLRB’s decisions can sometimes be knocked down if the litigants wish to spend a lot of time and money. The analogy was more to the point of the Senate not holding a confirmation hearing on Becker.
“I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.” Thomas Paine December 23, 1776
In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.-Ayn Rand
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