Will Team Biden Weaponize Workers’ Pensions?
Big Labor abuse of worker pension and benefit funds as a means of advancing union bosses’ self-aggrandizing policy objectives is a familiar phenomenon.
The BNA news service reports that the attorneys general of South Carolina, Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, and Virginia are challenging the NLRB’s overreach in its attempt to circumvent state Right to Work laws:
The attorneys general of nine states April 28 sent a letter to National Labor Relations Board Acting General Counsel Lafe E. Solomon asserting that his approval of an unfair labor practice complaint challenging Boeing Co.’s decision to establish airplane production in South Carolina was an “ill-conceived retaliatory action” that “seeks to destroy our citizens’ right to work” and asking him to withdraw the complaint immediately.
The letter came a week after Solomon announced the issuance of a complaint alleging that Boeing illegally transferred some of the production of its 787 Dreamliner and related supply operations to South Carolina because Washingtonbased employees represented by the International Association of Machinists have in past years engaged in lawful strikes over contract disputes with the company (77 DLR AA-1, 4/21/11).
Big Labor abuse of worker pension and benefit funds as a means of advancing union bosses’ self-aggrandizing policy objectives is a familiar phenomenon.
What impact does handing a union monopoly power to deal with your employer on matters concerning your pay, benefits, and work rules have on your pay?
The Foundation’s brief before the High Court in Starbucks v. McKinney discusses how NLRB officials use this radical assumption to urge federal courts to hit employers with “10(j) injunctions” that coerce the employers to give into certain union-demanded behavior.