AFL-CIO head honcho John Sweeney and SEIU chief Andy Stern both chimed in about last week's victory on behalf of employees by Right to Work attorneys. Sweeney cites a previous NLRB decision calling coercive card check unionization drives "a favored element of national policy."
What a joke. As previously cited, the Board in this decision cited:
“Card checks are less reliable because they lack secrecy and procedural safeguards… union card-solicitation campaigns have been accompanied by misinformation… workers sometimes sign union authorization cards…to get the person off their back.”
Stern, however, gets one thing right when he says:
"The NLRB has become a caricature of itself, and as a nation, we should be embarrassed by governing bodies that fail to consider even the most basic needs and rights of workers.”
How true. The NLRB has failed America's workers in many other Foundation cases. Here are just a few.
Comments
Card Checks
Card checks are a horrible way to procure workers to join a union. I am very familiar with this procedure as the company that I work for agreed to allow the SEIU 1199 to use this method with my coworkers and myself. Many were harassed, ridiculed and misled in an attempt to sign these cards. The NLRB is supposed to defend workers against such instances. To allow card checks to continue is such an injustice against the very workers that the NLRB is supposed to defend.
NLRB's origin
Bismarck
Srdja Trifkovic, foreign affairs editor for Chronicles, a few years ago wrote the following concerning the origin of the NLRB:
"FDR’s New Deal united communists and fascists. Union leader Sidney Hillman praised Lenin as 'one of the few great men that the human race has produced, one of the greatest statesmen of our age and perhaps of all ages.' Big-business partisan Gen. Hugh Johnson wanted America to imitate the 'dynamic pragmatism' of Mussolini. Together, Hillman and Johnson developed the National Labor Relations Board. They shared a collectivist and authoritarian aversion for historical American principles of liberty."
Enough said.