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Worker Speaks Out Against Obama Labor Board Before Congress

Anthony Riedel — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:18:04 -0400

In the wake of National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) move to kill the only protection workers have against card check forced unionism, the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce held a hearing yesterday about the recent onslaught of the NLRB's pro-forced unionism rulings as former-Chairwoman Wilma Liebman's term expired late last month.

Testifying at the hearing was Barbara Ivey, who works at a Portland, Oregon-based IT unit at Kaiser Permanente.

Ivey and 60 of her coworkers were subjected to a Service Employees International Union (SEIU) card check forced unionization campaign (via a neutrality agreement).

News Release: Obama Labor Board Kills Important Secret Ballot Precedent

Anthony Riedel — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:09:02 -0400

Obama Labor Board Kills Important Secret Ballot Precedent

Worker advocate denounces NLRB’s ruling to take away protection workers have against card check forced unionism

Washington, DC (August 30, 2011) – Today, Barack Obama's National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) overturned its Dana Corp. decision, in which National Right to Work Foundation attorneys secured for employees the right to challenge union card check organizing campaigns with a secret ballot vote.

Obama Labor Board Launches Assault on Workers' Right to Secret Ballot to Remove Unwanted Union

Nick Cote — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:28:58 -0400

Obama Labor Board Launches Assault on Workers' Right to Secret Ballot to Remove Unwanted Union

NLRB's decision to revisit pro-worker precedent highlights Board Member Craig Becker's refusal to recuse himself despite massive conflicts of interest

Legal Aid Foundation Demands Radical Obama-Recess Appointee to Recuse Himself from 12 Pending Cases

Nick Cote — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:13:34 -0400

Legal Aid Foundation Demands Radical Obama-Recess Appointee to Recuse Himself from 12 Pending Cases

New federal labor board member Craig Becker has demonstrated malice against National Right to Work Foundation and pre-judged cases about workplace freedom and union boss malfeasance

Employee Hits AT&T/Union Officials with Federal Labor Charges Attacking Scheme to Unionize Workers

Anthony Riedel — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:04:53 -0500

Employee Hits AT&T/Union Officials with Federal Labor Charges Attacking Scheme to Unionize Workers

Fearing lack of support, communications union bosses are attempting to rig election employees initiated to throw out unwanted union

Seattle, WA (February 24, 2010) – With free legal aid from the National Right to Work Foundation, a Redmond-based AT&T Mobility employee filed federal charges after union organizers illegally colluded with company officials to sweep AT&T workers across the state into union ranks in exchange for contract concessions.

Workers Prevail in Battle for Secret Ballot Vote After Corrupt Card Check Unionization Scheme

Anthony Riedel — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:35:56 -0500

Workers Prevail in Battle for Secret Ballot Vote After Corrupt Card Check Unionization Scheme

Communications union bosses collude with AT&T to lock local group into union ranks without majority support

Seattle, WA (February 11, 2010) – A group of AT&T Mobility employees have won a legal victory countering union officials’ domination of their workplace using a coercive card check unionization campaign that occurred after union organizers colluded with AT&T officials to sweep the workers into union ranks in exchange for contract concessions.

American Bar Association Presents Another Biased Panel on Right to Work Cases: Individual Employees' Perspective Again Barred

Patrick Semmens — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:40:52 -0400

In what has become an annual (or rather semi-annual) tradition, the increasingly discredited American Bar Association (ABA) is once again pointedly excluding the viewpoints of individual employees who don't want a union in their workplace.

The intellectually dishonest organization is holding its second annual Labor and Employment Law Continuing Legal Education Conference in Denver this September. The cover of the event brochure (pdf) trumpets a panel titled "Hot Topic: Neutrality Agreements, Card Checks, and Voluntary Recognition After Dana."

America's Employees Deserve Better

Justin Hakes — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:21:48 -0400

The Wall Street Journal's related article about Right to Work attorneys' victory for employees earlier this month says:

Organized labor, which has long criticized the (National Labor Relations) board under the Bush administration, charges that the recent activity is a partisan push, following several decisions reversing rulings made during the Clinton administration.

You've gotta be kidding me. Additionally, the agency has dropped the ball on these Right to Work Foundation-assisted cases.

Finally, the article fails to recognize that the Dana/Metaldyne decision doesn't even protect the very employees that brought the case! One thing's for sure, America's independent-mined employees deserve better than they've gotten on the whole from the Bush NLRB.

Chiming In

Justin Hakes — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:45:39 -0400

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.