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An Open Letter to GOP NLRB Member Brian Hayes: Please Resign Immediately

Brian Hayes, Esq.
Member
National Labor Relations Board
1099 14th St. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20570-0001

Dear Member Hayes:

Our nation stands at the precipice of disaster, its future generations are indebted due to the overindulgent spending of politicians from both political parties. Our unemployment is untenably high, our welfare roles expanded beyond reason, both with no signs of easing. Meanwhile, our nation’s job creators are burdened with an over-regulating, activist government whose sole existence at this point is to appease special constituencies. It is for these reasons, and more, that you are urged to resign your position as a member of the National Labor Relations Board.

Given last year’s Supreme Court decision in New Process Steel, you know that the National Labor Relations Board must have three members to effectuate its rulings and decisions. You may recall the reason for the New Process Steel decision stemmed from Senate Democrats’ purposeful and calculating decision not to allow President Bush’s nominees to be confirmed as members to the National Labor Relations Board, as well as the blocking of any recess appointments.

With the expiration of Chairman Liebman’s term this past weekend, the NLRB is once again down to three members—two union appointees (newly appointed Chairman Mark Pearce and Member Craig Becker) and yourself.  If you resign your position, the NLRB will become incapacitated—unable to wreak any more havoc on America’s job creators. Moreover, as long as Congress does not go into recess, thereby depriving the President the ability to recess appoint any more union extremists, America’s employers may begin to breathe with some ease again and, as a result, begin to create jobs.

With NLRB Member Becker’s recess appointment expiring in January, as long as Congress does not go into recess, the NLRB will be incapacitated anyway following the expiration of Becker’s recess appointment. However, the destruction that the union activists at the NLRB are capable of doing between now and January is without precedent, as evidenced by last Thursday’s NRLB mandate on all NLRB-covered employers to post union notices in their workplaces (or, as penalty, be charged with an unfair labor practice) that you and others have stated is without Congressional authority.

Member Hayes, America’s job creators cannot wait until January for there to be relief from the union extremists controlling our nation’s capitol. Unfortunately, the Obama NLRB has become nothing more than a tool for union bosses whose agenda is to unionize employers at the expense of both jobs and employee freedom. Only you, at this moment in time, have the ability to stop this. Hopefully, your resignation will help incapacitate the NLRB until after the 2012 elections, when the American people will have the ability to democratically decide the role our government should be playing in propping up labor union bosses.

Rest assured, many recognize the yeoman’s job you have done in providing thorough and well-reasoned arguments in your dissents. However, in nearly every case, you have been outvoted and the dissents you have given have been made irrelevant. Our nation can no longer afford to have a labor board that is solely doing union bosses’ bidding and the only way to stop this NLRB’s job-killing agenda is to incapacitate it.

While union bosses and their Democratic puppets may cry in hypocritical hysteria, their actions in vacating their positions (with labor union help) in Wisconsin and Indiana nullify any legitimacy to their complaints.

Member Hayes, as the lone individual at the NLRB who has the power to stop the insanity from this rogue agency, please resign.

On behalf of America’s job creators and the 93% of American workers who have chosen to remain or become union-free, please resign immediately.

With highest regards,

LaborUnionReport

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“I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.” Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776

Cross-posted at LaborUnionReport.com

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  • charliesalmanack

    nice job, LaborUnionReport!!

    Let’s hope he follows-through….

  • republicanconscience

    This NLRB must be closed down, drive a wooden stake through its heart, and burried in the bowels of the DC Sewage System to never rise again. It has been a blight on manufacturing, agriculture, entertainment, education, energy production, etc. Let the free market work.

    • jmadisonfan

      It’s called incrementalism and the libs understand it better than we do. We do not have the power to shut down the NLRB down right now with only the House in our control, thus this appears to be the only viable way to neuter it now, so we can hopefully kill it some other day down the road when we do have the numbers on our side. Of course the hope is that there will be a lot fewer squishes around at that time as well since they are usually more than willing to lend the progressives a helping hand in times of trouble.

      • http://dreamsfrommyforefathers.com RoguePolitics

        I would think after 100 years of failed attempts conservatives, losing every single large scale battle time after time, we could at least all agree incrementalism will NEVER be the right tool to recover the Republic.
        There are real reasons for this.
        The deck has been stacked for those 100 years to give absolute preference to bigger, more intrusive government.
        We aren’t going to increment our way out of this without changing the underlaying structure.

      • redhawk9

        All we have to do is have the POLITICAL WILL to de-fund the NLRB. Nothing in Washington can function if it doesn’t have money to work with,

  • MarkByron

    What differentiates this strategy from what the left tried to do in Wisconsin and Indiana (and years ago in Texas) by depriving their legislatures of a quorum? Other than the fact that this might do some good, not that much.

    Be careful of what you wish for, for the left may try this trick in the near future as well.

    • http://www.laborunionreport.com LaborUnionReport

      ;)

    • drucifer667

      that Member Hayes would be resigning, not running away at taxpayer expense and returning to the job when his demands are met. I personally see a huge difference there. Member Hayes would be making a real sacrifice for the nation’s well being, rather than running and hiding like petulant children.

      • http://www.laborunionreport.com LaborUnionReport

      • westcoastpatriette

        would be resigning on principle to protest the current abuse of power emanating out of the current NLRB. This, to me, completely justifies making such a move.

    • http://barnettlaw.org Frozen_Man

      between 1) retaining your position, keeping on the Country/State’s payroll, and refusing to do the job you are CURRENTLY employed/elected to do; and 2) resigning so that you no longer have a position, are off of the Country/State’s payroll, and are no longer currently employed/elected to do the job in question.

      You are not holding out, you are not throwing a tantrum and refusing to return – you are merely no longer engaged in that endeavor at all.

      Your current employer has a right to be upset and demand that you show up for work – your past employer enjoys no such right.

  • johnt

    guy. A species found only in the Republican Party, they provide the razors for their own throat cutting but live for the rare nod to an ersatz humanity from the tree swingers and grass eaters over at the Times.
    We’ll see.

  • renny

    What are the rules governing the positions on the NLRB?

    If the board would really cease to function and the third member could not just be immediately reappointed by little o, maybe Hayes should resign for the remainder of this admin.’s term for the good of all workers.

    • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

      And since regular appointments aren’t getting out of the Senate, and recess appointments are being blocked by the House keeping the Senate from recessing, the answer is no.

  • earlgrey

    I am sure if the situation were reversed the Dem would.

  • mjnellett

    The only way to stop a bully is to stand up to the bully! Mr Hayes, your resignation would put an insurmountable roadblock in the progressive’s way until such time as conservative common sense can regain control of a government gone mad! I am sure that a man with your record of standing up for working people in this country that a new administration would have no trouble reappointing you sir.

  • jettthemesh

    Rep. Hayes, if you remain on the board of the NLRB, the socialist/progs will say that all decisions are Bi-patisan, right or wrong. If you resign, we will have nobody on the inside to keep an eye on the seaslugs. Catch-22?

  • http://www.BillBowenAuthor.com RightinSanFrancisco

    There are several good reasons for reading Red State. Labor Union Reporter’s thoughtful articles are high among them.

    www.RightinSanFrancisco.com

  • williamjameson

    Perhaps its time to abolish the board because any group of people who demand all jobs go to one state rather than spread jobs around is a board of American DOOM. Companies cut costs by moving to states where labor relations are favorable and competitive or non union or both. Boeing corporation has been held back as have other companies due to corrupt union practices and a president hell bent on micromanaging something he doesn’t understand.

    Liberal idiots fail to comprehend that Boeing could move the new plant out of the country as could other companies due to extremist demands and an extremist president.

    Its time RS members for us to label Obama an extremist and continue to use it till the liberal media stop slandering GOP presidential candidates. Some in the conservative media should take a stand and start using the E word and use it wisely. The MSM have labeled the Tea Party and many republicans as such which gives creed to the liberal media to use the words even more. Use tough words to cancel out the extremist language coming from corrupt media buffoons because Obama is an extremist as is VP Biden.