Right to Work Update

Last week, the U.S. House Workforce Committee held a hearing on the Obama Labor Board's recent onslaught of Big Labor power grabs that undermine worker freedom. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Chairman and former union lawyer Mark Pearce offered his spin after the hearing, calling the Board's decisions "fair and even-handed." Cowboy's Comment:Geez, that's like putting the fox in the hen house with a pro-Union Lawyer at the NLRB.......Here's a question: "What do you call ten Union Lawyers at the bottom of a Lake?"......"...a good start is what it is."

The Socialist Union won out against Boeing. The Union complaint was that if Boeing was allowed to move a plant to South Carolina, where there is a right to work, it would a civil rights violation against the Unionized Boeing workers currently in Washington State. Cowboy's Comment:Requiring any worker to pay union dues as a condition of employment is totally Un-American and a major reason this country is in the dire straits we find ourselves in.

But at least one individual employee, victimized by one recent NLRB decision, stood up and made her voice heard.

On July 22, Barbara Ivey learned the radical Service Employees International Union (SEIU) was launching a campaign to unionize her workplace.

Thirteen days later, her employer, Kaiser Permanente, announced that it was recognizing the union as the monopoly bargaining agent of all workers in the unit.

There was no secret ballot vote. No one from the SEIU ever contacted Ms Ivey about whether or not she wanted to join or support the union.

Other workers told Ivey they felt pressured to sign so-called "union authorization cards."

But Kaiser Permanente agreed to recognize the union through the abusive card check process, and the workers faced an uphill battle to exercise their rights.

Relying on the National Right to Work Foundation-won Dana precedent, Ivey utilized the only means left at her disposal. She asked her coworkers to sign a petition demanding a secret ballot vote.

By August 8, Ivey turned in a petition supported by 45 percent of her coworkers to request a decertification election. The NLRB set a private vote for September 20.

But before that vote could occur, the Board overturned Dana, canceling the election.

Barbara Ivey and her coworkers must now wait one to four years to request a new decertification election.

Ivey told the U.S. House panel, "For me and my fellow employees however, snatching away those rights just as an election has been agreed to and a date had been set was cruel and unethical."

Read the rest of her testimony by clicking here.

I'm sure you'll agree there's nothing "fair and even-handed" about her story.

Union Mobs attacks Verizon

Paraphrased from Mark Mix's column on the Right to Work Movement. I don't ever see any Politicians standing up much anymore for these Unions,...sure the Democrats funnel money to the Union coffers - no more so than Obama with the Stimulus plan,....but no politicians is willing to stand up in front of a camera and say what the Unions are demanding,.....that workers must belong to a Union, pay Union dues, and stand silent while the Union funnels money to Democrat campaigns.

Oh, by the way, the Obama Stimulus plan isn't really a failed plan like the facts suggest,...I say that it was intended all along to fund the Unions and "stimulate" the political campaigns of Democrat candidates. Anyway, back to the Unions lead by Communist scumbags......

Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) union bosses have ordered tens of thousands of Verizon employees to abandon their jobs and report to a union picket The early reports of rampant intimidation and militancy are disturbing but sadly unsurprising. The U.S. has come to know Unions for their deliberate lies; violence and intimidation; and, outrageous demands for gold plated benefits and handouts.

Verizon already reports over 70 acts of sabotage and damage to phone and Internet lines -- exposing customers to the possibility that they will be unable to call for help or reach family during an emergency. Verizon managers are filling in for union workers on strike and being harassed as they cross the picket line each day.

One union militant ordered his young daughter to stand in front a Verizon truck while he verbally berated the independent technicians.

And on Facebook, union strikers compiled a so-called "scab" list -- that disgusting name union thugs use to demean, harass, and even threaten workers who defy union-boss orders and continue working to provide for their families.

Watch the video below,...listen to the Union strikers yelling "Union Power!",....what I hear is "Mob Power!":