Posted on 09/27/2011 6:34:46 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
Last week, the U.S. House Workforce Committee held a hearing on the Obama Labor Board's recent onslaught of Big Labor power grabs that undermine worker freedom.
National Labor Relations Board Chairman and former union lawyer Mark Pearce offered his spin after the hearing, calling the Board's decisions "fair and even-handed."
The outrageous complaint against Boeing hardly seems fair to the thousands of South Carolina workers who could be forced out of their jobs all because they can't be required to pay union dues or "fees" as a condition of employment.
But don't just take my word for it.
At the hearing, an individual employee victimized by one recent NLRB decision stood up and made her voice heard.
On July 22, Barbara Ivey learned the radical Service Employees International Union (SEIU) was launching a campaign to unionize her workplace.
Thirteen days later, her employer, Kaiser Permanente, announced that it was recognizing the union as the monopoly bargaining agent of all workers in the unit.
There was no secret ballot vote. No one from the SEIU ever contacted Ivey about whether or not she wanted to join or support the union.
Other workers told Ivey they felt pressured to sign so-called "union authorization cards."
But Kaiser Permanente agreed to recognize the union through the abusive card check process, and the workers faced an uphill battle to exercise their rights.
Relying on the National Right to Work Foundation-won Dana precedent, Ivey utilized the only means left at her disposal. She asked her coworkers to sign a petition demanding a secret ballot vote.
By August 8, Ivey turned in a petition supported by 45 percent of her coworkers to request a decertification election. The NLRB set a private vote for September 20.
But before that vote could occur, the Board overturned Dana, canceling the election.
Barbara Ivey and her coworkers must now wait one to four years to request a new decertification election.
Ivey told the U.S. House panel, "For me and my fellow employees however, snatching away those rights just as an election has been agreed to and a date had been set was cruel and unethical."
Read the rest of her testimony by clicking here.
I'm sure you'll agree there's nothing "fair and even-handed" about her story.
Sincerely,
Mark Mix National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
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Unions haven’t been about supporting the workers they claim to represent for decades. They are about enriching the bottom line of the the Union Bosses and the Democrat party.
No one should be forced to have anything to do with a Union if they choose not to.
oh man, a young couple that I know just moved down there last week to start work at the Boeing plant. I hope it all works out.
if people put up with thugs,
thugs will win.
“Union Thugs force Boeing of South Carolina to become unionized”
Am I missing something? I don’t see Boeing being forced to unionize in this report. The employer was Kaiser Permanent.
What am I missing?
Mark
I was VERY surprised that even with a solid Dem majority in the House and Senate for two years, the Baraqqi Regime was unable to pass card check.
Nothing like a good rousing game of calvinball eh, thugs.
The Chinese have a universal union but it’s a sham. It’s an organization for the purpose of exerting government control over the workers.
i wondered the same thing. There’s nothing about Boeing here - but the Kaiser thing should be illegal, well probably is illegal but too many in power have been bought off.
Wonder if there was a crazy deal with the management to count itself, therefore the grunts were never asked.
I must be missing something too. I went to the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation website and didn't find anything saying Boeing employees at the new SC plant had been forced to go union.
If that was true every news source in the country would have it on the front page.
Over seas there they go, happy?
This ain’t about Boeing.
It is a solicitation email.
I get lots of email, too, but I don’t feel the need to post them all on FR.
Love S.C. This will change the cultural landscape. It should not happen, for the 'best' of what is in truth, now, our country's worst employment pool and it's MO.
Hope there is some hope, that in the end the thugs do not win...but see no light, here.
Enough; enough...of America's enemies winning what are loathsome per these anti-American, and 'ill-gotten' gains.
Love S.C. This will change the cultural landscape. It should not happen, for the 'best' of what is in truth, now, our country's worst employment pool and it's MO.
Hope there is some hope, that in the end the thugs do not win...but see no light, here.
Enough; enough...of America's enemies winning what are loathsome per these anti-American, and 'ill-gotten' gains.
When they're not in power, communists use unions to gain power. Once they're in power, communist outlaw unions and often kill (or at least imprison) the very labor leaders who got the communists into power in the first place!
Mark
All the Boeing workers have to do is elect anti-union types to key union positions.
They can tell the local union to shove it, zero the dues, and tell the NLRB to shove it.
And when it comes to their threats, cut ‘em off at the pass.
If there’s one thing a bully can’t stand, it’s a punch in the nose!
What the H E L L do you think “union” is for.
And all guided by the islamic communist puppet’s government of America.
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