This week, on Monday and Tuesday, an “open meeting” occurred at President Obama’s National Labor Relations Board over the NLRB’s proposal to move toward ambush elections. Though largely a waste of time, since the union appointees running the NLRB have little intent to listen to the practical side of labor relations and will do the unions’ bidding, there is a simple solution to resolving this | Read More »
If you thought the union extremists at the National Labor Relations Board were a little…er…extreme, wait until you get a load of this latest example of an agency run amok. Every week the NLRB publishes a summary of NLRB decisions. In the Board’s latest weekly summary, there was one decision summary that seemed rather unique since it stated: The Board granted the Acting General Counsel’s | Read More »
Perhaps it’s because the union extremists at the National Labor Relations Board have 40% less work than their predecessors in 2001, yet have nearly $67 million more in their budget, that they now have money to blow on an August conference in Washington, D.C…Or, perhaps it’s because they seem immune from Congressional oversight. Regardless the reason, in August, the National Labor Relations Board is apparently holding | Read More »
Attention job creators (and those who do not want a union in their work lives): If you are concerned about the Obama administration’s latest assault on America’s job creators, as well as union bosses putting more of a stranglehold on the economy through President Obama’s National Labor Relations Board, you may wish to attend the NLRB’s “open meeting” on July 18th and 19th in Washington, DC. | Read More »
With one hand firmly planted in union bosses’ pockets, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid got on his high horse in the Senate on Wednesday afternoon to hypocritically castigate Republicans for calling out the union fanatics at the National Labor Relations Board and their latest attack on Boeing free enterprise. Here is Hypocrite Harry on the Senate Floor on Wednesday [via the Workforce Fairness Institute] Unfortunately | Read More »
There’s been a lot of ink spilled of late over the union-controlled National Labor Relations Board’s decision to prosecute Boeing for allegedly locating its second 787 assembly plant in South Carolina in retaliation for the Machinists’ union employees engaging in past strikes. Despite the NLRB’s Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon’s statement that there is “nothing remarkable or unprecedented” about his prosecution of Boeing, his basing | Read More »
Update: On Wednesday, Boeing filed its formal response to the NLRB, which you can view or download here. Following the union-controlled NLRB’s attack on complaint against the Boeing Company’s decision to open second 787 plant in South Carolina, politicians, pundits and free-market advocates have all criticized the NLRB’s Acting General Counsel actions as an example of government overreach on behalf of union bosses. In the | Read More »
As unemployment continues to rise as a result of the Obama administration’s anti-business climate, the union-controlled National Labor Relations Board is about do what a Democrat-controlled Congress could not do—give unions the ability to kill unionize more companies. We’ve known this was coming for a while now, but after union bosses blew a few hundred million of their members’ money trying to save what Democrats | Read More »
Less than a week after the U.S. Supreme Court slapped down the National Labor Relations Board for illegally ruling on about 500 cases, the Senate has confirmed for full-terms two of President Obama’s nominees to the NLRB. According to Bloomberg… The National Labor Relations Board reached its full five-member size for the first time since December 2007 after the U.S. Senate confirmed two of President | Read More »
As President Obama’s union-controlled National Labor Relations Board continues on its quest to help unions do all they can to unionize America’s workers, a hint of their newest attempt may come in the form of a request for information (RFI) through the federal government’s procurement website. For 75 years, when a union seeks to unionize a company, the NLRB’s primary method for determining whether a majority of | Read More »
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