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Foundation VP Stefan Gleason appeared on CNN Wednesday with Lou Dobbs as part of a piece on the Obama Administration’s new Project Labor Agreement Executive Order, which discriminates against the vast majority of construction workers who have not chosen to unionize. The executive order is likely to result in hundreds of millions of dollars in new forced union dues, while jacking up the costs shouldered by taxpayers. Check it out:
Dobbs sums it up nicely at the end when he observes that “this is a massive windfall for organized labor.”
Every year the Center for Union Facts holds its “Ten Worst Union-Protected Teachers” contest and the contest “winners” (a dubious distinction, of course) have been announced.
Some of the worst teachers in the country are as follows:
- “Winner” pulled up, drunk, to the drive-thru window of a fast-food restaurant. After ordering, he became angry that he wasn’t getting his food fast enough, so he took out a gun and started waving it at restaurant employees. After his arrest, he pled no contest to all charges and was sent to jail. His students, meanwhile, were told he was caring for an ill family member. Once he was out of jail he was reinstated for several months before the media got wind of the story.
- “Winner” had already been accused of fondling a teenage girl when three girls accused him of making lewd comments. Investigators found him guilty of “conduct unbecoming of a school board employee.” His punishment: write out the district’s sexual harassment policies.
- “Winner” had sex with two of her male teen students. She was warned by the school principal and colleagues to stop driving students home after school, and she also allegedly bought students alcohol. She now teaches second-graders.
The full press release can be seen at http://teachersunionexposed.com/worst_nominate.cfm.
The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), the union friendly law currently sitting idle in Congress awaiting a Big Labor financed president to get around to addressing it, has some very interesting supporters. We’ve been told, of course, that we shouldn’t worry about Barack Obama and his followers, that they are just as American as anyone else. That claim of red-blooded Americanness is a bit hard to reconcile, however, where it concerns the EFCA.
While taking a small uptick in numbers the last few years, union membership has been down compared to the heyday of union labor in the US. Unions backed Obama with many millions of dollars during the campaign and have been keenly interested in enacting the EFCA, a bill that will help grow union membership in the country. They expect pay back for supporting Obama and he’s pledged to give it to them.
The chief aspect of this bill is the “card check” feature that will tend to eliminate the right of prospective union members from voting for or against the union in the most common process of western democracy; the secret ballot. Future workers will be forced to openly declare their choice of pro or anti union by signing a public card. This public declaration leaves every voter open to any form of intimidation and this is why unions want this bill passed. It will be all the easier to force new members to say “yes” to unionism.
But, it isn’t just union thugs that are supporting the unAmerican ideals inherent in this bill. Communists and socialists are too. And by that I mean communists in the United States. (I won’t call them “American communists” because it is impossible to be both at the same time)
For instance, the North Texas branch of the International Socialist Organization (ISO) is passing out fliers (see image here) in support of the EFCA.
The disgusting image of the commie Jesus I used above is from their MySpace photos page where one can also see photos from their meetings.
So, this serves as a good illustration of the sort of people that support the EFCA. If the communists are for it, how could any true American join them?
Washington (CNSNews.com) – Congressional Republicans led by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) announced Wednesday that they are sponsoring legislation to protect the right of workers to have a secret ballot when they are deciding whether they want a labor union to represent them.
The bill is designed to counter the proposed union-backed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA)–a bill the Republicans say would destroy the secret ballot system currently used in union organizing.
The Secret Ballot Protection Act was introduced in both the House and Senate in an effort to preempt EFCA, which is expected to be introduced later this year.
The bill would prohibit a union from being recognized based solely on employees signing publicly signing union authorization cards at the public urging of union organizers. It would provide that a union may only be recognized by an employer, following certification by the National Labor Relations Board, if it has won majority support in a secret ballot election conducted by the NLRB…
Read the full report at :CNSNews.com
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) president, Andy Stern, recently sat down with a reporter from USA Today and made an interesting — and probably erroneous — claim. Stern told the paper that there are 60 Senators ready to help him push through the disastrous Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) through Congress.
Stern also said there are 60 senators who either support the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) or would vote to cut off a filibuster. He said he expects action by August.
Stern has been charged to name these shadowy 60 Senators but has yet to respond to demands to reveal any such proof.
It is highly doubtful that he has commitments at this time from 60 Senators, but this interview does show that the unions are still keenly interested in pushing this undemocratic card check policy onto America’s workers.
In 1959, well-meaning advocates of employee freedom secured passage of the Labor-Management Reporting Disclosure Act (LMRDA), a bill that promised disclosure of union finances with the (mostly unrealized) promise of weeding out corrupt union racketeers.
In 2009, President Barack Obama pledged his Administration would be on the side of disclosure — but that has been revealed as a false promise.
The Obama Administration has moved to eliminate some modest union disclosure regulations that would allow American workers forced to pay union dues some basic information about the self-awarded “benefits” union bosses enjoy.
Of course, so long as forced unionism privileges remain intact, no amount of disclosure will meaningfully increase union accountability, but perhaps employees will gain a greater awareness of how their forced dues ae spent.
Please watch the video below and then go to the Department of Labor’s website to comment on these detrimental regulatory changes. All comments related to this issue must be made by March 3.
You can view the Foundation’s request for extension link or make your own comment regarding the effective date change. (Just click on the yellow comment icon in either of the above links to add your own comments about this cover-up of union boss corruption.)
Note: You should have Docket: LMSO-2008-0002 listed at the top of your comment. Please let them know how you feel about this power grab. Feel free to e-mail us a copy of your comment.
You may also visit Regulations.gov and enter LMSO-2008-0002 to comment, search comments, or read your own comment after it’s been published.
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