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TAKE ACTION: America’s Job Creators Are About To Be Sucker Punched & You Have Until Wednesday
RedState ^ | Sept 19, 2011 | LaborUnionReport

Posted on 09/19/2011 10:45:00 AM PDT by thouworm

America’s Job Creators Are About To Be Sucker Punched & You Have Until Wednesday To Comment

September 19th 2011   ·  

You need to act before Wednesday. At a time when the Obama Administration is clamoring to save or create jobs, his Department of Labor is about to sucker punch America’s job creators with an unprecedented regulatory overreach—all to curry more favor with union bosses.

On Wednesday, the public comment period will be closing on a Department of Labor proposal that the majority of America knows nothing about and even fewer understand.

If enacted as drafted, the union cronies within the Department of Labor will require every private-sector employer and service provider (whether or not they ever talk directly to employees) to file financial statements with the Obama Labor Department if the service provider’s services indirectly affect employees’ choice to unionize or not.

Unless you act by commenting here, this rule change will likely take affect. [See link to and sample comment below.]

Once the financial information—which includes the service provider’s entire company (or firm’s) receipts (even from other clients)—are submitted, it will become public information. It will then be published on the Department of Labor’s website and available to union bosses. What’s more, willful failure to file the financial information is a criminal violation, punishable by either imprisonment, a fine, or both.

In June, when the Department of Labor, at the behest of union bosses, issued a 160-page proposal to expand the interpretation of “advice” under a little-known law called the Labor-Management Reporting & Disclosure Act, few understood just how deeply the DOL’s proposed rule change could affect employers and consultants of all stripes–not just those involved in labor relations. Most still don’t understand it.

In addition to companies who hire attorneys to assist them with union issues, the Department of Labor’s broad expansion into areas that most would not consider remotely connected to unions, but because it could indirectly affect [read deter] employees’ choice to unionize, the Department of Labor will likely call this “persuader activity.”

Here are the types of vendors (and the employers that hire them or purchase goods from them) who will likely be caught up in the DOL’s new proposed rules:

Since the Department of Labor’s phraseology is: “…activities that have as a direct or indirect object to, explicitly or implicitly, influence the decisions of employees with respect to forming, joining or assisting a union, collective bargaining, or any protected concerted activity (such as a strike) in the workplace,” the type of activity that an employer and consultant may be required to report to the Department of Labor is almost endless.

Again, the public comment period closes on Wednesday, September 21, 2011. All comments must be received on or before Wednesday.

If you do not act by submitting a comment, it is likely this rule change will go into effect causing many job creators, instead of focusing on job creation, to spend more time and resources on more paperwork, or risk going to jail. Moreover, it will cause many unsuspecting service providers who currently do not know they will fall into the Department of Labor’s trap to either violate the law, or open their personal, company or firm earnings to the Department of Labor, the public and union bosses.

Below is a sample comment provided, courtesy of the Labor Relations Institute. It is suggested that you download, individualize or personalize it before sending to the Department of Labor, then submit your comments to the Department of Labor here.

LRI Sample Comment for DOL Persuader Rule Change

The choice is yours: You can act by submitting a comment, or you can give union bosses what they want–the ability to target more employers.



TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dol; humanresources; labor; labordept; obama; palin; unions
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1 posted on 09/19/2011 10:45:02 AM PDT by thouworm
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To: thouworm

You have been told all of your life that income information is private & not to be available to the public.


2 posted on 09/19/2011 10:59:41 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: thouworm

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3 posted on 09/19/2011 11:07:16 AM PDT by SF_Redux (Sarah stands for accountablility and personal responsiblity, democrats can't live with that)
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To: thouworm

Looks like a lot of these vendors are going to have a harder time getting contracts from employers.


4 posted on 09/19/2011 11:08:34 AM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est)
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To: SF_Redux
The more we learn, the worse it gets. Looks like this fraud can be criminally linked directly to Obama. This thread did not get enough attention.

The Solyndra Fraud; National Review Online ^ | September 17, 2011 | by Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew McCarthy, is a former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He prosecuted the Blind Sheik, the mastemind of the first World Trade Center bombing, in the Federal District Court in Manhattan. No doubt he has also handled financial fraud cases.

5 posted on 09/19/2011 11:23:29 AM PDT by thouworm (.)
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To: thouworm

This is intended to discourage the HR consulting firms that employers bring in to try and fend off a union.


6 posted on 09/19/2011 11:23:38 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: grumpygresh; ridesthemiles

“Looks like a lot of these vendors are going to have a harder time getting contracts from employers.”
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I wondered why we are just learning about this now?


7 posted on 09/19/2011 11:25:35 AM PDT by thouworm (.)
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To: thouworm

You really have to ask yourself why are we paying congresscritters from the stupid party 200 K /yr when this sort of thing just sneaks up out of nowhere


8 posted on 09/19/2011 1:30:33 PM PDT by mapmaker77
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