The Washington Times has a great editorial today speaking to the big payoff that unions are expecting from their man in the WH, Barack Obama. They expect not only the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) to pass, but they also want their handpicked, left-wing, lawyer placed in the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), a fellow named Craig L. Becker.

That’s who President Obama nominated for a seat overseeing federal labor laws on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Mr. Becker’s record as a top lawyer for both the Service Employees International Union and the AFL-CIO is so troubling that even Democrats such as Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Louisiana and Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska thought someone else should be found for the job. Though the Senate has consistently refused to confirm Mr. Becker, the president has no intention of abandoning Big Labor’s champion.

The Times highlights several of the problems with Becker, but this one is particularly egregious:

Mark Mix of the National Right to Work organization reports that in 2007 alone, Mr. Becker’s lawyering forced 63,000 California workers to pay union dues even after rejecting union membership. He allowed repeated “home visits” for union backers, designed to pressure workers to sign public union-organizing petitions. Unions were “formed to escape the evils of individualism and individual competition. … Their actions necessarily involve coercion,” Mr. Becker once explained.

This union hack is responsible for stealing the food right out of these non-union workers in California. Even worse, a bevy of bought off politicians and judges assisted him in the caper. And this is the sort of in-the-pocket, union hack that Obama wants to put in an office that is responsible to make the official government rules that both labor and employers are to follow. It is supposed to be a non-partisan, even handed position, but can we expect a union lawyer to be fair? I don’t see how anyone could.

And this is the kind of corrupt bargain that Obama is trying to push through. It’s a disgrace for sure.

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