Union-Only Port Terminal Suspends Operations
Committee President Mark Mix: “If I were a Leatherman dockworker, I certainly wouldn’t count on Longshore Union bosses to show any flexibility” to get the terminal reopened and “save my job.”
Culture of Union Favoritism: Recent Action of the National Labor Relations Board
Hearing Witness Barbara Ivey, who received help with her petition for a secret-ballot election from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, is set to testify tomorrow.
Mrs. Ivey and her co-workers were scheduled to hold an election. SEIU had rammed-through card-check forced-unionism at her workplace; thirteen (13) days after being informed that SEIU was trying to organize her and her co-workers, Ivey was told that it was over and SEIU now represented her.
She was never offered a card, nor was she offered a secret-ballot election to vote on the union representing her.
Ivey collected enough signatures to demand a secret-ballot election under the “DANA Rights” NLRB option. The NLRB scheduled the secret-ballot vote. Before Barbara and her co-workers were allowed to vote, the Obama NLRB eliminated her right to a secret-ballot election and forced her and everyone else to be represented by SEIU.
For more information about tomorrow’s congressional hearing:
September 22, 2011
“Culture of Union Favoritism: Recent Action of the National Labor Relations Board”
The hearing is scheduled at 10:00 a.m. in room 2175 Rayburn H.O.B.
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Media Advisory: Committee to Examine Recent Pro-Union Actions by the National Labor Relations Board (September 20, 2011)
Witnesses:
Curtis L. Mack
Partner
McGuireWoods LLP
Atlanta, GA
Barbara A. Ivey
Employee
Kaiser Permanente
Keizer, OR
Arthur J. Martin
Partner
Schuchat, Cook & Werner
St. Louis, MO
G. Roger King
Partner
Jones Day
Columbus, OH
