The Washington Times noted President Obama’s speech denouncing Michigan’s new right to work legislation is a sign that he will be even more union friendly in his second term. Well, he didn’t wait until his second term to unleash the NRLB on the workers after the election. The unions were given some nice big Christmas presents from the board members who were appointed illegally.
The Wall Street Journal covered it the other day.
Christmas came early for Big Labor last week when the National Labor Relations Board handed down a pair of decisions that overturned longstanding precedent and will deliver a windfall to union finances.
On Wednesday, the NLRB voted 3-to-1 to gut protections for workers who don’t want their money spent on politics. In states without right-to-work laws, employees of unionized companies are coerced into paying dues as a condition of employment. But under the Supreme Court’s 1988 Beck decision, workers are allowed to withhold the portion of their dues that unions spend on political activity.
Unions must also maintain independently verified audits of their finances and provide members with proof that their assertions about spending practices are accurate. But the NLRB now says those requirements no longer apply and so-called Beck objectors are no longer entitled to see proof that their money isn’t included in union spending on politics. Maybe the Securities and Exchange Commission should waive business audits too.
The board also carved out certain lobbying from the list of political activities from which workers may withhold dues. “Lobbying expenses are chargeable to [Beck] objectors,” the board wrote, “to the extent that they are germane to collective bargaining, contract administration, or grievance adjustment.” That vague definition could cover nearly any lobbying expense.
Last week, the same 3-1 panel also struck down 50 years of precedent in a case that will force companies to subsidize unions that go on strike against them. While workers march the picket line, businesses will be required to withhold their dues and pass them along to union leaders.
Read the whole thing. This should come as no surprise. The Democrats rely on unions for campaign financing and get out the vote efforts. They don’t care about the workers, as long as they keep paying their dues and funding that cash cow.
Did he give up the Presidency of the United States to be president of the AFL-CIO? He has no place in the middle of a tussle between two views in America. He’s supposed to be president for ALL of the people….oh, wait. He is also supposed to protect the Constitution.
All snarkiness aside, this is not the place of a U.S. President. I loathe this person.
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Yeah well here’s the problem, if you’re a community organizer, you have two sources of power. First is the Fed & state grants you can garner and the second it the from the unions. Discouraging but not unexpected. You can be certain that card check will follow some Friday afternoon.
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What else is new. This is the Socialist Marxist operation of feeding their own self- the unions, the liberal socialist marxist’s personal civilian army of useful idiots, to perpetually feed itself in a cycle of public tax payer money, via forced unions dues, which goes to the union coffers, which goes into the electing and maintaining of their hand selected liberal politicians, who in turn give the unions their power and authority in legislative laws that secure their entrenched position over decisions and policies that benefit each other, like pigs all feeding off the tax payer govt money trough- Perpetual Collusional Corruption.
They mine as well call themselves the La Costra Nostra.
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A good union worker is an out of work worker. You Union bastards are nothing but leeches and liars. So here is my advice for you corrupt douche nozzles: Better get a new skill, cause your asses are on your way out, and you know it. Keep up what you are doing. Every hard working non union worker loves it when you open your holes. You show yourselves to be liars, cheats, and no matter how much the MSM covers for you, your true colors are on display. You are greedy bastards who deserve nothing but contempt from a moral and ethical America. Your mindset is; suck the life out of this country while you can. I will be waiting for you small minded, skinny dicked, fuckwads!!!
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Exactly, LC. This should be a huge red flag to membership. If the most important thing is dues to be a protected income stream there’s really no incentive for National Union Leadership to be advocates for striking workers receiving no pay check. When will membership wake up and smell the toast burning?
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