Posted on 05/18/2021 7:16:39 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Conservatives are learning the hard way that joking about union organizing is no laughing matter.
Commentator Ben Shapiro’s tongue-in-cheek tweet last year about striking employees spurred a federal complaint that touched off a seven-month investigation by the National Labor Relations Board, which ultimately dismissed the matter in a decision announced Monday.
What was the tweet? Referring to Spotify staffers threatening to strike over comedian Joe Rogan’s show, Mr. Shapiro, founder of The Daily Wire, tweeted, “I have a message for DW employees. If you ever try anything like this, you can consider your strike permanent.”
“NLRB’s dismissal of these frivolous charges is welcome,” said Adi Dynar, litigation counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which represented The Daily Wire. “But this incident showcases the sad reality that NLRB will look for ways to silence honest discussion and debate on social media platforms.”
Joshua Herr, general counsel for The Daily Wire, said that the investigation included months of “burdensome and harassing demands without accountability to a judge or jury,” but Mr. Shapiro may have gotten off easy.
I have a message for DW employees. If you ever attempt anything like this, you can consider your strike permanent. https://t.co/ZlFxOAYKCX
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) September 25, 2020 Still fighting a similar complaint is FDRLST Media, publisher of The Federalist, where co-founder Ben Domenech’s sarcastic June 2019 tweet about sending employees “back to the salt mine” is now before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
Mr. Dynar, who also represents FDRLST Media, challenged in March the NLRB’s ruling that the tweet violated federal labor law, arguing that the jab was clearly comedic and that the board lacked jurisdiction because the complaint was filed by a third party unconnected to The Federalist.
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Look for the Union Label - then torch it.
What happened to the first amendment?
It’s bonkers, didn’t you hear?
Regan said the same thing to ATC’s, then fired them when they tried to call a bluff that was not.
The process is the punishment
Unions...
For manufacturing-related unions, their only historical accomplishment is the effective and efficient transference of most important manufacturing jobs to other parts of the globe...
The two major communist unions, the education & public employee unions, are directly responsible for the destruction of American culture, history, and morals..
As such, they were a major force in the now successful efforts to destroy the former Republic and they now provide the power base for the communists who will hold absolute control of the Nation for a long long time to come...
“Regan said the same thing to ATC’s, then fired them when they tried to call a bluff that was not.”
The strike was Illegal...they got what they deserved.
“Look for the union label”
Almost all of the US apparel and textile business, and the millions of blue collar workers who supported its domestic supply chain, have been successfully outsourced to foreign countries. No need to look for a union label in your shirts, pants, or underwear anymore.
Scalia was about to be part of a union sc issue. I dont recall the details, exactly. Union have and always will kill for power. Paying full dues to one is aiding and abetting.
Labor unions are organized crime, extortionists who also launder money for the demoncrat party.
I do not believe, on it’s face , that this is a conservative issue. I do not like the NLRB and what it stands for but it has been a standing law that as an employer you cannot make comments like this, even in jest.
You cannot fire employees for attempts at unionization
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