Posted on 01/14/2011 6:58:22 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan
The National Labor Relations Board announced on Friday that it planned to sue Arizona, South Carolina, South Dakota and Utah in an effort to invalidate recently approved state constitutional amendments that prohibit private sector workers from choosing a union through a process known as card check.
The labor board asserts that the amendments conflict with federal laws and are pre-empted by those laws.
The state amendments were promoted by various conservative groups concerned that Congressional Democrats and President Obama would enact legislation allowing unions to insist on using card check, in which an employer recognizes a union as soon as a majority of workers sign pro-union cards. That method makes it possible for employees to unionize without elections. But Congressional Republicans blocked such legislation.
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He doesn’t have a chance in any of those states anyway.
> Defund the NLRB.
NLRB = National Labor RACKETS Board
They want the bosses looking over the workers shoulders when they vote.....the union bosses.
This is morally wrong. shame on the NLRB
I’d like to see Texas do it.
How did you vote to return RINO McCain to the Senate in view of such a statewide Conservative mindset.
McCain and his friends just had a lot more money than we did. He also had his friends in the “media” on on the left. He also had a lot of friends on the right who bashed J.D. 24/7, 364 (Sec. of DHS lingo). I guess J.D. was the wrong guy to run against McCain since J.D. was pretty much trashed the same way here on this board. Even my very rightwing BIL voted against J.D. He watches too much local news I guess. Maybe we’ll have better luck next time with someone else. I voted J.D. in primary. I didn’t vote for a Senate candidate in the primary. That one stayed blank.
Great info. Thanks.
Yep, here is another government agency on my short list for defunding . . . the NLRB.
could someone spell this out for me with a hypothetical scenario? i have never been in a union so I don’t understand the underlying vibes on both sides.
say for example my workplace wants to unionize, and secret ballots are outlawed for whatever reason (i don’t understand this logic but let’s continue).
i vote ‘yes’ then i risk retaliation from management if the union is not certified, right?
i vote ‘no’ then i risk retaliation from union-sympathizing coworkers or other members of the union my workplace is trying to join, right?
If that had been done in 1861, things would be very different. I doubt it could be done today since I can't think of anyone in the US today who can write like Jefferson; who is as driven and committed as Adams; or who could hold an insurrectionary army of ordinary people together like Washington.
“I think the 10th amendment trumps the Federal labor laws”
FDR, the New Dealers, and the liberals on the courts back then took the 10th amendment out of the consitution and fed it through a shredder. Reviving the 10th would require standing up to the institutions like the NLRB that exist because we ignored the 10th.
You wont find the National Labor Relations board in the Constitution either, btw.
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