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Outgoing Democratic NLRB chairwoman: Conservatives attacking Board with ‘baseball bat’
Daily Caller ^ | 8/30/11 | Matthew Boyle -

Posted on 08/30/2011 12:59:01 PM PDT by Nachum

Outgoing National Labor Relations Board chairwoman Wilma Liebman thinks critics of the NLRB’s recent policies have blown their complaints “grossly out of proportion to what has happened and what has been done.”

“We knew we were going to have a boxing match, but we didn’t expect our opponents to come in with a baseball bat,” Liebman, a Democrat, told The New York Times.

The NLRB has come under fire during President Obama’s administration for favoring unions. The Board has traditionally swung with political tides, but critics say this time around it’s different. The NLRB has plowed forward with unprecedented cases, like the one against The Boeing Company for opening a new plant in South Carolina, and pushed new pro-union regulations like the “quickie elections.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chairwoman; democratic; goonions; nlrb; outgoing; thugocracy; unions
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1 posted on 08/30/2011 12:59:04 PM PDT by Nachum
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“We knew we were going to have a boxing match, but we didn’t expect our opponents to come in with a baseball bat,” Liebman, a Democrat, told The New York Times.

That truly is a crying shame. We need to come in with chainsaws instead.

2 posted on 08/30/2011 1:02:35 PM PDT by dirtboy
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>“The perception of this agency as doing radical things is mystifying to me,” Liebman continued. <<

Just shows you how clueless and arrogant this twit is..


3 posted on 08/30/2011 1:06:11 PM PDT by max americana (FUBO NATION 2012 FK BARAK)
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To: Nachum

If it sounds too good to be true, that’s because it probably is too good to be true.


4 posted on 08/30/2011 1:07:50 PM PDT by RichInOC (Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
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Wilma Liebman. Whining loser of the year. Go back to your Commie buddies.

The Communist Party of Indiana CPUSA

5 posted on 08/30/2011 1:09:53 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: dirtboy

That’s my opinion. We should not be bringing a baseball bat to a chainsaw fight.


6 posted on 08/30/2011 1:12:11 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I like both Perry and Palin, and will vote for whichever of them wins.)
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To: dirtboy

It’s all union.

They understand baseball bats.


7 posted on 08/30/2011 1:12:47 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Sarah Palin 2012 - Nothing but Net)
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To: Nachum

A standard tactic for such radicals. They create policies that are totally beyond their authority, and are highly unconstitutional and intrusive, harming lots of people and businesses. And then, when they are called out on it, whine that it is their opponents who are radical and extreme for opposing them.

Think about it, wacko leftists calling conservatives “extremists” for opposing radical change. Turning the definition of the word on its head.


8 posted on 08/30/2011 1:13:40 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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they are trying to force card check and we all saw what they are doing to the Boeing factory


9 posted on 08/30/2011 1:14:06 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: dirtboy

Take no chances - nuc ‘em from space.


10 posted on 08/30/2011 1:14:17 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Lazlo in PA

I don’t know about a baseball bat, but somebody definitely hit her with an ugly stick.


11 posted on 08/30/2011 1:15:48 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Lazlo in PA

Another good find. I am stealing this. Put it up on the website, and just on Twitter. :)


12 posted on 08/30/2011 1:16:49 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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Didn’t YOUR president tell you to bring a gun?


13 posted on 08/30/2011 1:23:35 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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“We knew we were going to have a boxing match, but we didn’t expect our opponents to come in with a baseball bat,”

Well boo frickety hoo!


14 posted on 08/30/2011 1:28:35 PM PDT by henkster (Socialists and liberals all want jobs; they just don't want to work.)
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To: Lazlo in PA
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15 posted on 08/30/2011 1:34:59 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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16 posted on 08/30/2011 1:47:53 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Nachum

Why not? It’s the Chicago way...


17 posted on 08/30/2011 1:50:28 PM PDT by FromTheSidelines ("everything that deceives, also enchants" - Plato)
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To: Lazlo in PA

Looks more like an “Ugly Stick” than a baseball bat.


18 posted on 08/30/2011 1:52:46 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: rockrr

It’s the only way to be sure...


19 posted on 08/30/2011 1:59:40 PM PDT by farlander (Fiat Justitia, Ruat Caelum. Sic Semper Tyrannis!)
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To: Nachum

Twenty-five years ago, this Board served as a mediating force between battling union locals, internationals or district committees and employers and employer associations. It found a middle line and was feared and respected by both sides.

Since the Clinton era, that position of legitimate mediation has been totally lost by “activism” and taking sides to promote a unionism agenda.

This will help kill unions as employers will be convinced that they have no impartial appeal boards or assistance available and therefore will do all that they can to not become signatory firms.

Like the risk of exposure to “unfunded pension or healthcare fund liability” this will drive another nail in the coffin of “organized” labor.


20 posted on 08/30/2011 2:04:10 PM PDT by KC Burke
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