Remember the words: lame duck session. If Republicans win the House or Senate, big labor will call in their final chit and demand passage of the Card Check Forced Unionism bill and Boss Trumka isn’t denying it:…
Remember the words: lame duck session. If Republicans win the House or Senate, big labor will call in their final chit and demand passage of the Card Check Forced Unionism bill and Boss Trumka isn’t denying it:…
'Electronic' Voting Would Facilitate 'Card Check'-Style Abuses Three of the four current NLRB members who were appointed or reappointed by President Obama are veteran union lawyers. All three are expected to vote in lock-step to expand Big Labor's forced-unionism privileges. (Source: July 2010 NRTWC Newsletter) Since the beginning of 2009, Big Labor has had a cheerleader in the Oval Office. At the same time, ample majorities of both chambers of the U.S. Congress have been willing to vote for virtually any power grab sought by union officials, as long as they could do so without running into intense, across-the-board constituent opposition. Consequently, top union bosses have expected to see enacted in the current Congress legislation that would help them sharply increase the share of all private-sector workers who are under union monopoly-bargaining control. Their original vehicle for achieving this objective was S.560/H.R.1409, the so-called "Employee Free Choice Act." Sponsored by union-label Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Congressman George Miller (D-Calif.), S.560/H.R.1409 would grease the skids for Big Labor workplace takeovers in several ways. Most famously, it would effectively end secret-ballot elections in union organizing drives, replacing them with so-called "card checks." That means, if S.560/H.R.1409 became law, union organizers would have far more
The Democrat National Committee has surveyed its members to create a list of priority agenda items for the party and apparently someone forgot to get a sign off from the labor union bosses on the mailing. The Card…
Like the headline “Dog Bites Man,” the news is reporting that the AFL-CIO union boss Richard Trumka continues to support the Forced Unionism Card Check bill. You don’t say? The bill will eliminate workers ability to choose forcing millions of Americans into…
Like the headline “Dog Bites Man,” the news is reporting that the AFL-CIO union boss Richard Trumka continues to support the Forced Unionism Card Check bill. You don’t say? The bill will eliminate workers ability to choose forcing millions of Americans into…
In 2007, Senator Arlen Specter voted for the Card Check Forced Unionism bill when he was a Republican. Then, in 2009, he helped block the Card Check Forced Unionism bill when he was a Republican. In the first session…
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) says senators are “still negotiating.” From The Hill: McCaskill said that while senators were still negotiating the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), a controversial bill to reform union organizing rules, it was unlikely to even…
The President’s decision to appoint radical Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board has breathed new life into the Card Check Forced Unionism Bill. No, the bill is still bottled up in the Senate but Becker can now push…