Concerning Boeing and the new plant to build the backordered Dreamliners in Charleston, SC. The article below should be read in its entirety. Excerpt: TIME TO CURB THE NATIONAL LABOR BOARD'S MISSION CREEP. EXCERPT: The NLRB was never meant to micromanage where companies can locate or how many products they can manufacture, as the NLRB under the Obama administration is currently seeking to do. To stop it, Congress should exercise its power of the purse to return the board to its original mission. The NLRB was originally established to oversee union elections and investigate violations of federal labor laws. These days its doing less of that than ever. In 1980, the NLRB conducted 8,531 union elections around the country, with a budget of $108 million. In 2009, it oversaw only 1,704 union elections, with a budget of $261 million. Union membership has plummeted by more than 40% since the 1980s. The rapid collapse of organized labor in Americas private sector has reduced the need for union electionsand thus, the NLRB itselfby 80% over the last three decades. Yet its budgetadjusted for inflationremains essentially unchanged. Hence the boards recent drift into freelance assaults on economic freedom: While 20% of its budget may be needed to perform its real job, the board seems to be misusing the other 80% for ideological mischief. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=44088
As with any government agency, they have and will continue to evolve as conditions within the country continue to likewise evolve. Furthermore, the NLRB doesn't just deal with only unions or charges filed against unions. People who are non-union also file complaints against the companies they either work for or attempted to work for. The article, authored from Jim DeMint cannot be taken seriously since he is an avowed anti-unionist and as such its is highly unlikely that he would looks at the issue objectively.
That depends on the judge. If it makes the supreme court I agree. If it does not get that far... don't count your chickens.
While CEO's are bringing home million dollar bonus's, the workers are making less, getting less, and that is who the complaining is about? Ask yourself why. Because the big corp's want to pay less. Unions are the only thing that stands behind the worker, the little guy, up against big corp's and big money. If not for Unions, every worker, Union or not, would be making less wages. Heading back to $50 a week pay checks?
Four of the five board members are pro-union, anti-business liberals and are there via recess appointment. It is currently nothing less than tax-payer funded pro-union representation at the highest level.
wow shociker....RW blog opposed to the NLRB? next you will tel me the heartland institute and the heritage foundation arent fans either?