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BREAKING: Obama Pays Back SEIU & AFL-CIO Bosses, Makes Unilateral Recess Appointment of Craig Becker

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  March 27th, 2010 at 05:57 PM  | 

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As we’ve been forewarning for nearly a week, demonstrating his penchant for appeasing union allies, President Obama made a recess appointment earlier this afternoon of SEIU insider attorney Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board.

The US Chamber’s Randal Johnson said of the appointment:

“This recess appointment disregards the Senate’s bipartisan rejection of Craig Becker’s nomination to the NLRB,” Chamber Vice President Randel Johnson said in a written statement.

“Overriding the will of the Senate and providing this special interest payback contradicts the president’s claim to change the tone in Washington,” he said. “The business community should be on red alert for radical changes that could significantly impair the ability of America’s job creators to compete.”

According to the NLRB’s press release:

President Barack Obama today announced the recess appointments of attorneys Craig Becker and Mark Gaston Pearce to fill two vacancies on the National Labor Relations Board.

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Becker has served as Associate General Counsel to both the Service Employees International Union and the American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations.

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Pearce was a founding partner of the Buffalo, New York law firm of Creighton, Pearce, Johnsen & Giroux, where he practiced union side labor and employment law before state and federal courts and agencies.  [Emphasis added.]

The appointment today of both Becker and Pearce, while ignoring the nomination of a potential fifth Board member means that, instead of having a full NLRB of five members (which would normally consist of either three Democrats and two Republicans, or vice versa, depending on the party of the President), the NLRB will have three Democrats to one Republican, virtually guaranteeing all pro-union/anti-employer rulings in the future.

We will have more on this next week on LaborUnionReport.com, as well as our blog.

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  • izoneguy

    Another anti-competitive, anti-business labor board to destroy the ability of American business to compete in the global marketplace.

    The purge coming in 2010 & 2012 will be brutal – for the socialists.

  • jdw4america

    and state that this is a nightmare for job creation, and between this irresponsible action and the coup that is their so-called HCR, I do believe there’s a case for sedition and treason against barry.

    What other purpose could exist other than the destruction of the US economy and the implementation of socialism? If this were not the case, why did he not disavow the endorsement of his HCR by Fidel Castro, one of the most brutally oppressive dictators the world has known?

    That’s right, I said it – call the hate police.

    Joy Behar on the View the other day re Glenn Beck -”There’s a difference btwn free speech and hate speech!” That’s right, one of them is mentioned in the Constitution.

  • mbecker908

    Scenario: a company has serious financial problems, their income shrinks dramatically, their stock price drops by 80%. The company reduces wages and benefits and threatens layoffs and going out of business unless the employees agree to their terms. The employees, under obvious duress, agree to the terms dictated by the company, giving back $10MM.

    The company then gives the chairman and CEO bonuses of $13MM.

    So, what will Craig Becker do to help these employees? What will the administration do to make things right? Will Henry Waxman be calling the CEO and Chairman before a committee to justify their actions?

    Probably not, here’s the rest of the story from the New York Post…

    Those paydays that New York Times Co. Chairman Arthur Sulzberger and President Janet Robinson received last year are once again coming back to haunt them.

    The Boston Newspaper Guild, which absorbed more than $10 million in pay and benefit cuts to members last year in order to save The Boston Globe, has lashed out at the Sulzberger and Robinson 2009 bonuses and are demanding their lost wages and benefits be restored.

    “We were astonished to learn that the two of you received more than $10 million in stock awards and options in 2009,” the Guild wrote in an open letter urging its members to send to Sulzberger and Robinson. “During the year for which you were so richly rewarded, the 600 members of the Boston Newspaper Guild gave back almost the same amount in pay and benefit reductions — $10 million to be exact — after you threatened to close our newspaper, lay off hundreds of people, and strip Massachusetts of its largest newspaper.”

    Union members at the New York Times owned Boston Globe are up in arms after making $10million in concessions to avert a shutdown of the paper, while Charirman Pinch Sulzberger (above) and CEO Janet Robinson were paid almost $13 million in stock awards
    Union members at the New York Times owned Boston Globe are up in arms after making $10million in concessions to avert a shutdown of the paper, while Charirman Pinch Sulzberger (above) and CEO Janet Robinson were paid almost $13 million in stock awards

    “Now that the Times has shown it can afford to lavish so much on a few top executives, we expect our pay and benefit cuts will be restored in the coming months.”

    The Times Co. declined to comment.

    On this one I wish all the best to the Guild.

  • Scope

    Harry knows he’s going home in November. He will approve Obama to commit murder, if that’s what it takes to transform America.

    Locally, the SEIU is running commercials applauding Perriello. They will have a major presence in November. He bused them in to attend his otherwise anti-Perriello Townhalls.

    • Scope

      n/t

      • izoneguy

        They punch harder…..

      • http://www.laborunionreport.comandhttp://www.laborunionreport.blogspot.com LaborUnionReport
  • http://www.barrypopik.com barrypopik

    You beat me to the story!

    Craig Becker will add union card check, making American business more expensive and the labor unions wealthier.

    I have some stock in AT&T. It’s a good stock–except that the new health care bill will cost the company millions. I didn’t count on our president willfully destroying what’s left of American business. Silly me.

    We all knew this would happen on a quiet weekend. It’s a big finger to the senate confirmation process and to the American people.