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Shocking! A letter signed by 66 academics demands the immediate confirmation of SEIU counsel Craig Becker to head the National Labor Relations Board. (For a background on why employers are concerned about Mr. Becker’s positions, see here.)

Sixty-six academics is a pretty powerful thing, right? A collective call to action that we should all do a coffee spit-take, stop what we’re doing, and take action, right? Each reader can place his own weight on the importance of comments by professors, but it’s worth going back to our previous post and noting the view of academics by some inside organized labor:

• Referring to academics, Javier Morillo of SEIU 26 wants to respond with a letter that “Shames them just a little bit for signing onto something without knowing all the facts” (no one from the employer community made such an effort when academics pushed EFCA, but that’s a different story)
• Jo-Ann Mort, a would-be adviser, says of the academic group: “most of these academics really are not worth it-but spamming them sounds like what they deserve!!”
• Michelle Ringette, a frequent flack for SEIU boss Andy Stern, wrote: “I know these aren’t high value targets, but I firmly believe people shouldnot be permitted to do drive bys. They are all getting a letter this am and they all bought spot on our spam list.”

Just food for thought.

Look, we get it: professors are more popular than organized labor, but c’mon. Labor can keep trotting out this same tactic to push its anti-worker agenda, but its own cynical view (and low opinion) of academics is now in the public record and, consequently, the professor-letter brigade doesn’t do much for us and it shouldn’t mean anything to Senators considering important issues relating to the workplace.

UPDATE: Brad Peck at Chamberpost.com offers more text-book retort and adds, “They must not have done the reading.”

Tags: Academics, Craig Becker, SEIU