Washington Times: End the Illegal Collusion
The Washington Times agrees with us that collusion between management and Big Labor to force workers into…
'Obama Appointed Them Before the Senate Could Even [Hold] Hearings'
In a column posted last night (see the link below) and appearing in print this morning, Washington Examiner senior editorial writer Sean Higgins predicts that today the U.S. Senate’s HELP Committee will rubber-stamp Big Labor President Barack Obama’s slate of…
Constitution's Recess-Appointments Clause Preserves the Senate's 'Advice-and-Consent Power by Limiting the President's Unilateral Appointment Power'
Late last week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit became the second federal appeals court to rule that President Barack Obama had exceeded his constitutional authority in order to install pro-forced unionism radicals on the powerful, five-member…
Union Bosses to 24 States -- You are Wrong
Dan Calabrese examines the union bosses lawsuit against Michigan Right to Work and points out the absurdity of their argument: You knew the unions were going to try. They have to. It’s what they do. There may be no legal…
NC Court Green Lights Big Labor, Okays Violating Workers' Privacy
"There is no legitimate purpose of labor law served by making a criminal who maliciously discloses someone's name and social security number together to intimidate that person into joining or not joining a union liable to only a wrist slap at most. Especially when a perpetrator of the same offense with any other motive faces a multi-thousand-dollar fine for every count. "The court ruling that ITPA violations by union bosses are preempted by the NLRA is, therefore, preposterous. "But ID theft need not become yet another, to borrow the words of eminent 20th Century American legal scholar Roscoe Pound, 'wrong' labor unions and their officials may 'commit to person and property . . . with impunity.' "In an essay penned back in 1958, this former Harvard School of law dean observed that labor union officials 'now stand where the king . . . stood at common law.' "Over the past five-and-a-half decades, Big Labor has acquired even more legal immunities. But Fisher could prove to be a great opportunity to begin rolling back court-created union special privileges."
A Michigan Right To Work Lawsuit Gets Tossed
An Ingham County judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging Michigan’s right-to-work law. The Lansing State Journal reports that Circuit Judge Rosemarie Aquilina rejected the suit on Monday because it should have been filed directly with the state Court of Appeals.
Does Former New York Times Legal Reporter Linda Greenhouse Really Not Know the Difference Between a Union Member and a Union Nonmember?
More than two decades ago, a three-judge panel on the Fourth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals considered the question of whether an “employee who wishes to remain a union member but desires to contribute financially only to the…
Recusal In Order
The Free Beacon asks an interesting question -- will Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan recuse herself from a case dealing with recess appointments to the NLRB? Critics of President Barack Obama’s recess appointments are calling on Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan to recuse herself from a potential Supreme Court hearing on the matter. The Chamber of Commerce raised the prospect of recusal, citing then-solicitor general Kagan’s defense of President Obama’s recess appointments in a previous case regarding the composition of the National Labor Relations Board. The Supreme Court invalidated more than 600 NLRB decisions in the June 2010 case New Process Steel v. NLRB because the board had been issuing decisions with only two members. Kagan defended Obama’s approach to board composition and recess appointments in several briefs, writing in April 2010 that the court “would significantly burden the rights protected” by the National Labor Relations Act if it decided against the administration. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in January ruled in Noel Canning v. NLRBthat Obama violated the Constitution when he appointed Richard Griffin and Sharon Block to the board without Senate confirmation while the upper legislative chamber was in pro forma session. Legal experts predict the case will end up in the Supreme Court.
Step Aside
Forty US Senators, led by Sen. Orrin Hatch, are demanding that members of the National Labor Relations Board step aside until valid and legal appointments can be made. The letter to Sharon Block and Richard F. Griffin, Jr., the two…