Archive for July, 2011
NLRB Proposes Changes to Union Election Process
Act Now Advisory NLRB Proposes Changes to Union Election Process: What This Means to Employers On July 18-19, 2011, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “the Board”) held a public hearing on its radical proposed changes to the current election handling procedures. The proposed changes (“Proposal”) are set forth in a notice of proposed [...]
Full StoryAFSCME: The Big Green Dog Behind Big Government & Higher Taxes
from RedState Across the nation, states, counties, and municipalities are facing a fiscal calamity. Even before the 2008 economic meltdown, many states were facing a sea of red ink due to over-promising, poor fiscal planning, and too much political influence from government union bosses. Now, as politicians of both parties grapple with the mess created [...]
Full StoryThe SEIU NLRB Serial Job Killer
by John Ransom In just another example of the Obama administration making law by fiat, the National Labor Relations Board head Craig Becker is proposing new rules that would shotgun the formation of new union shops in as quick as ten days. After the defeat of card check at the legislative ballot box, the former [...]
Full StoryObama’s Labor Board: We Prosecute Dead People Too…
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 [...]
Full StoryAs Their ROI Slips, Democrats Find Unions Less Giving of Members’ Money
…it appears that union bosses are making good on their threats–or, like sending a dead fish, they’re putting the message out that they mean business (before 2012 rolls around and they open up the spigots again). According to the Center for Responsive Politics union bosses haven’t been as giving as they have been in the [...]
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