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Just read a post by John Wojcik at People’s Weekly World that highlights another of the key reasons that the current labor movement is repugnant to me. Most of the article is a standard diatribe from the Pro-Employee Free Choice Act crowd. However, John writes at the end of his post:
The labor movement, for the last three or more years, has marched, picketed, sat in, demonstrated, petitioned and engaged in major strikes from one end of the country to the other. It mobilized for the 2006 and 2008 elections on all levels, reshaped the face of Capitol Hill, changed the Congress, changed the Senate and was critical in the election of perhaps the most pro-labor administration in U.S. history.
Because of this militancy we are on the verge of seeing serious, major labor law reform in this country.
Consider the fact that “unionized” Americans account for about
Continue reading Roar of Miscreants
 I’m deeply concerned. I cannot give Big Labor credit for the meanderings that have led to this juncture, but I believe opponents of the mis-named Employee Free Choice Act have stumbled into a trap. If we (all American businesses) are not careful, the jaws of the trap will soon clamp tight around our necks.
It seems business interests have done a pretty good job of throwing a wrench in the works of the Big Labor lobby pushing for the EFCA. Many prominent Democrats have been pressured into backing away from the current version of act. The Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, formed by more than 500 business and conservative organizations, coordinated the effort to fight the card
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I hate to sound like Rush Limbaugh and say “I Told You So,” but we did! The debate over the Employee Free Choice Act is only a small tip of the iceberg of the radical new environment American companies will face. There are so many additional ways that the Obama administration and Big Labor (working together, obviously) are changing the landscape.
Witness this week alone:
* An appeals court just nullified 300 NLRB decisions made last year
* Obama appointed two attorneys to the NLRB who have been in bed with Big Labor for decades, one of whom is on record via law review articles in favor of drastic changes to labor law in favor of unions.
* Obama gave the UAW (vs. the private investors) majority control of Chrysler, which will also present an interesting conflict of interest twist.
It ain’t pretty
Continue reading 300 NLRB Decisions Voided!
Newt Gingrich recently added his two cents to the Employee Free Choice Act debate, and highlighted the issue we’ve been warning of as the more insidious: mandatory arbitration. He has this to say:
In the history of this country, government has never proved its capacity or capability to exceed the performance and productivity of those engaged in private enterprise. Why, then, should we trust government to know enough about the nuances and market forces at play in a particular industry to set wages and benefits for workers?
Not to mention the fact that negotiations over these issues are detailed, and typically have never been completed within the EFCA-mandated time frame. On that point, we have had NO RESPONSE at all to our $10,000 reward offer for any government arbitrator who can show they have negotiated a first contract within 90 days, ever.
  
Another confirmation of Specter’s willingness to move along with the Dems on the Employee Free Choice Act. Even though several Democrat Senators have been making noise like they may shy away from the card check bill, when it comes down to fish or cut bait, politics will rule, the Dems will most likely toe the line, and Specter should be enough to send it over the edge.
Come on 2010!
(meanwhile – brace yourselves…)
Unbelievable! At a time when any discussion about the government-run retirement system (Social Security) centers around the failure of the government to handle the money properly, the SEIU (Service Employees Union International) wants the government to take over the private pension system! What is it about history that liberals, and Big Labor, can’t read? We already have an administration hanging huge milestones of excessive government overspending, never before matched in history, around the necks of our children and grandchildren.
The administration is now trying to tell American businesses how they can or can’t pay their employees. Via the Employee Free Choice Act, they want to take over writing the labor agreements for every business in America, from large to small. And now we’re being asked to give the government our pension monies?
American businesses have to be running scared. They are dead center in the sights
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This article out of Washington State points to two strategies working against American businesses and workers. Interestingly, the focus of this article is actually on the less alarming of the two.
Apparently, a veteran official of the Washington State Labor Council wrote a memo outlining possible strategies to pursue this week in hopes of getting a vote on a new piece of union-friendly legislation. The email was sent to a number of labor leaders, and copied to four lawmakers. One of the strategies equated to a threat to withhold future campaign funding for members of the congress that went against Big Labors wishes. It is possibly a violation of regulations that state that lobbyists cannot exercise “any undue influence, extortion or unlawful retaliation on any legislator by reason of the legislator’s position with respect to or vote upon any pending or proposed legislation.”
All of the above is typical
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Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas seems to be connecting the dots in the brouhaha over the Employee Free Choice Act, along with a few others. Let’s follow Senator Lincolns plausible stream of thought: the largest employer in Arkansas is…WalMart. Analysts at Citigroup in New York downgraded their WalMart recommendation to a hold instead of a buy because…passage of the EFCA could force increased labor costs and limit expansion. I want to be seen on the side of the Employee Free Choice Act because…I’m for loss of jobs for my constituency???
Although Lincoln was in favor of the EFCA in the 2007 debate, she is now hedging her bets. “Right now, my number one priority is strengthening our state’s economy and putting 90,000 jobless Arkansans back to work,” Lincoln said in a statement.
Even if reason doesn’t seem to prevail, if opponents of this horrible legislation can focus the
Continue reading Dose of Reality?
I won’t say much about this – watch for yourself. Big Labor is pushing hard trying to get their paid-for Senators to carry their water, but I don’t know if they have big enough yokes to carry that much water up the size of the hill they may be facing! America is finally starting to take notice, and I think this is one reason the Employee Free Choice Act was introduced this week – to beat the working people to the punch before they know what hit them.
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