Posts Tagged ‘West Virginia’
“This is the highest priority for organized labor…”
Our friends at Shopfloor.org report that the powerful, though highly troubled, SEIU has sent an email to Capitol Hill threatening informing them that the nomination of Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board “is the highest priority for organized labor…”
And here we thought we were a nation of laws, not of men.
Why is this man so important to the union? At the Board, Becker could create de facto laws like card check by fiat. That’s precisely why SEIU, which has blown card check for the entire labor movement, is desperate to get their own lawyer on the top agency in the land. Don’t believe us? Shopfloor also points to this recount at Huffington Post:
The White House urged unions not to launch a public campaign around his appointment, arguing that it would pass Congress via an “inside game,” a source working on the process told the Huffington Post.
It’s never good when secrecy cloaks deliberative processes. And the process is no longer under the radar. One West Virginia newspaper has noticed and weighed in on the editorial page:
Appointing Becker to this board is like appointing George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees to the umpiring crew in the World Series.
Sens. Jay Rockefeller and Robert C. Byrd should oppose this nomination.
It will be important to see if Massachusetts Sen.-elect Scott Brown can be seated — or if traditional Senate decorum — can overcome dirty pool by union bosses who are hoping to use an illegitimate majority to dramatically alter the workforce landscape of America.
… And Yet Another Editorial Warns Against the Employee Free Choice Act
Adding its name to the growing list of newspapers worried about the negative consequences of the Employee Free Choice Act, the Times West Virginian recently warned that the bill could negatively affect the balance between business and labor. It also worried about employees:
Employees deserve the opportunity to gather as much information as they can and make their choice by secret ballot without fear of reprisal from either side, just as they do when they go to the polling place to vote for public officials.
Chalk up another editorial in Congressional Members’ districts as they go home to be heavily lobbied by special interests.
