Posted on 02/09/2010 1:58:55 PM PST by goldstategop
The nomination of Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board was just defeated on a cloture vote 52-33. Sen. Ben Nelson (D., Neb.), Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D., Ark.), and Sen. Scott Brown (R., Mass.) all voted against cloture.
Probably did a head count and when they lost Nelson, Blanche and the new kid on the block; cut the vote short to save embarrassment and pull the covers up over their exposed buttocks.
I can hardly wait until November! LOL
I guess we can call Brown good ol 33.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
*snip*
Mr. Becker has other ideas. In a 1993 Minnesota Law Review article, written when he was a UCLA professor, he explained that traditional notions of democracy should not apply in union elections. He wrote that employers should be barred from attending NLRB hearings about elections, and from challenging election results even amid evidence of union misconduct.
He believes elections should be removed from work sites and held on "neutral grounds," or via mail ballots. Employers should also be barred from "placing observers at the polls to challenge ballots."
More extraordinary, Mr. Becker advocated a new "body of campaign rules" that would severely limit the ability of employers to argue against unionization.
He argued that any meeting a company holds that involves a "captive audience" ought to be grounds for overturning an election. If a company wants to distribute leaflets that oppose the union, for example, Mr. Becker said it must allow union access to its private property to do the same.
Mr. Becker isn't clear about which of these rules can be implemented by NLRB fiat, and which would require an act of Congress, but his mindset is clear enough. He's willing to push NLRB discretion as far as possible to tilt today's labor rules in favor of easier unionization.
Zero. Congress is not in recess.
I can’t help it...I’m SMIRKING.
Nat’l Review
UPDATE: Senator Brown said of his “no” vote on Becker, “Craig Becker’s theories about how the workplace should function, if ever put into practice, would impose new burdens on employers, hurt job creation and slow down the recovery.”
02/09 04:49
Nope, they moved the vote up to earlier in the day so the Senators who could make it in due to the weather could vote. Those remaining numbers likely reflect those who couldn't make it in.
“RATS rats in sheep clothing!!”
A.k.a, Demon Sheep. LOL.
Recess appointments only last so long as John Bolton can attest.
LOL ... great minds .. and dang, you were dropped
from my ping ... but back on .. ;)
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
SENATOR SCOTT BROWN SAID of his “no” vote on Becker,
“Craig Becker’s theories about how the workplace should function, if ever put into practice, would impose new burdens on employers, hurt job creation and slow down the recovery.”
(Dream scenario is that Obama is found 'illegitimate' - if only by 2012; whereby EVERY thing this man has done; signed. . .is undone; made null and void; and every appointment and signing that he invited/approved undone as well.
In a word; everything this man has done while empowered is ERASED. Oh well, best case scenario; but the stuff of dreams.)
These weasels are already attempting a mid-course correction before the November elections.
Too late for that, by my estimate. They've already proven themselves to be whores.
“Oh my! See Ben and Blanche run”
“Dead Politicians Walking” No way either survives.
That's what the Miami Herald article stated: "That procedural vote had been scheduled for Monday, but was postponed until Tuesday because of the mid-Atlantic snowstorm over the weekend.
Late Tuesday, as another snowstorm loomed, Senate officials moved the vote earlier in the day so the few senators who had been able to get to the Capitol could cast their votes and leave.
Storms movin' out, storms movin' in. That ought to tell them something about GW, doncha think? But, nah, Obummer has to appoint a new council to look into that...
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