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Big Labor’s Dictatorship Takes Jobs Away from South Carolina
Michael Reagan, FloydReports.com
One of the shameful hallmarks of a dictatorship is the restriction of movement — telling citizens or groups they cannot travel or relocate freely.
We are now witnessing a shocking example of that dictatorial practice at the hands of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which is insisting that a major U.S. employer may not move some of its operations from one state to another because to do so might somehow violate workers’ rights.
The case in point involves famed aircraft manufacturer, Boeing, which is building a second assembly line for its new 787 jetliners in South Carolina. That’s a no-no, says the NLRB.
Huh? A federal government agency which is supposed to monitor relations between employers and their employees to insure fairness is taking into its hands the power to say which manufacturer may or may not relocate its facilities on what it sees as the basis of good business practice.
Boeing, whose aircraft have helped secure the liberty and safety of Americans in countless wars, wants to move some of its facilities from the state of Washington to South Carolina which happens to have a so-called right-to-work law, which permits employees of companies with facilities in the state to choose whether or not to join a union.
Big labor hates that kind of law. Big labor insists that employees, like slaves, must either be….
Conflict of Interest: Obama Appoints Fmr. SEIU Lawyer to Investigate Union Corruption
Don Loos, BigGovernment.com
Has President Barack Obama been deceiving America, with his Ethics Executive Order 13490? It certainly appears that the actions of the Obama Administration are far from his recent statement that he has “put into place the toughest ethics laws of any Administration in history [pause] in history.” A host of Obama’s appointments call into question the President’s commitment to his own Ethics Order. Appointments such as U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Sec. Hilda Solis, DOL Deputy Solicitor Deborah Greenfield, and NLRB Board member Craig Becker undermine Obama’s claim of “toughest ethics.”
Now, the National Right To Work Committee introduces John Lund, Obama’s “overseer” of union financial reporting and disclosure at DOL’s Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS). This Obama appointee is a former director of the now-defunct Pacific Northwest Labor College, a former SEIU union employee , a fomer IUOE union employee, and former director of the University of Wisconsin School for Workers. Lund’s appointment means that he is now in charge of investigating financial mismanagement and irregularities by the very labor union officials he has trained for decades. (click to view the NRTW shocking handout on Lund)
Big Labor Payback Job One for Obama
Even though Obama campaigned on transparency and a focus on ethics, cronies at DOL focused on eliminating basic financial union disclosure and union officials’ conflict-of-interest disclosures requirements.
At DOL, John Lund cut the number of labor union investigators, rescinded disclosure of union officer benefits, eliminated financial reporting for unions like the Wisconsin Education Association Council, and eliminated conflict-of-interest reporting for thousands of union officials. Each of these actions benefits Big Labor Bosses, but undercuts those forced to pay union dues and fees as a condition of employment.
John Lund Conflicts-of-Interest
The Obama Ethics Executive Order requires appointees to pledge that they will refrain from involvement in matters involving their former employer or clients. The AFL-CIO and other unions are former clients of John Lund, and these unions remain clients of his former and current employer, the University of Wisconsin School for Workers (Lund is currently on unpaid leave while at DOL). The Wisconsin School for Workers’ primary mission is to train union officials; the very officials that Lund now purportedly investigates for corruption.
The following highlights are but a few that The National Right To Work Committee has unearthed to illustrate Lund’s conflicts-of-interest….
Do Wisconsin Union Threats Break the Law?
Kevin “Coach” Collins, FloydReports.com
Wisconsin’s union thugs are at it again — but this time, targeted businesses may have a way of fighting back. Organized labor in Governor Walker’s state is threatening to boycott businesses deemed less than “supportive.” Looking at the conduct of the union thugs in Wisconsin suggests the possibility of fighting back against unions’ boycott by filing lawsuits claiming tortious interference.
Unbridled Savagery
Since Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled government set out to dismantle their feeding trough, the state’s civil service unions have responded with unbridled savagery attacking everyone they see as a threat. Even business owners who dare to be other than “supportive” of their claims on the state’s treasury are marked as enemies.
Union thugs have smashed windows in the State Capitol building, scrawled graffiti on the building’s beautiful marble walls, and made death threats to Republican lawmakers including Governor Scott Walker.
They are fearsome and quite willing to commit violence to get their way: union threats in Wisconsin are nothing to laugh at.
Since they can not pull up stakes and run, business owners are being “asked” to place signs in their shop windows announcing support for the union extortion of Wisconsin’s middle class.
Those who have dared to say “No” have been threatened with boycotts of their businesses. Business owners who refuse the signs are receiving a letter from a Field Representative of Wisconsin AFSCME Council 24 warning that failure to post the sign will lead to a union boycott of their establishments….
Wisconsin Public Unions Sell Out the Rank-and-File
Kevin “Coach” Collins, FloydReports.com
While statewide union thugs were busy trashing Wisconsin’s capitol building and making death threats against Republicans supposedly in an effort to “protect” their members, local union bosses were busy stabbing those same members in the back.
If nothing else, the entire Wisconsin episode in union strong arm tactics has forever rip the cover off the façade of the unions’ purported paternalism toward their members. Rank and file union members are learning their union thug bosses care about themselves and nothing else.
Selling Them Out
At the very moment the unions were savagely attacking anyone they thought was against their designs to keep feeding at the Wisconsin public trough, the bosses of three AFSCME locals, an SEIU local, and a Wisconsin Professional Police Association (clerical workers) unions….
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SEIU Helps Illegal Aliens Steal American Jobs
Kevin “Coach” Collins, FloydReports.com
The invasion of illegal aliens who are sneaking over our southern border every day places the very life of our nation in jeopardy. This onslaught of poor illiterates brings nothing we need or can’t provide for ourselves, but they do bring an array of social problems we don’t need. These people are a clear and present danger to all of us; so we need everyone to roll up his/her sleeves and get to work to stop this flood of problems. This is why the treachery from the anti-American SEIU is so serious.
The Service Employee International Union (SEIU) has been carrying out an effective program to aid and abet the illegal aliens streaming into our country to steal the jobs of its own members.
On Monday the results of an audit, conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on a large Minnesota firm were leased and they caught the SEIU red-handed. The audit focused on the employees of Harvard Maintenance Inc., a national corporation that offers janitorial services.
The ICE audit has brought about the firing of 240 illegal aliens who had worked for Harvard with the full cooperation of Local 26 of the SEIU.
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Organizing for America’s Fatwa Against Scott Walker
Sandy Rios, Townhall.com
…Organizing for America has been a steady presence in Madison, Wisconsin. And this is their report on Saturday’s massive welcoming to the fourteen democratic senators who returned after three weeks hiding in Illinois, refusing to come to Madison for a vote:
“This is what democracy looks like!” the people are chanting and clapping with a pretty awesome beat. This is very real and it’s happening now. Friends, allies, workers, we’re all here at the capitol in Madison in the fight for our rights. The spirit inside and out of the packed building are filled with faces showing all ranges of emotions…
There was no mention of that “range of emotion” that included hatred.
Death threats to Wisconsin Republican Governor, Scott Walker, and his party’s 18 senators have been direct and unambiguous. They are numerous and specific and they are coming from protestors in sympathy with union protestors connected to the president of the United States. But the president is silent…Organizing for America is silent and so have been NBC, CBS, ABC, NPR, CNN, the New York Times, and most major media.
These are excerpts from an e-mail sent March 9 to Republican Senators:
Read below for …possible scenarios in which you will die…I hope you have a good time in hell…we have planned…to put…a nice little bullet in your head… I as well as many others know where you and your family live…we wouldn’t leave it there….we have also built several bombs…placed in various locations around the areas in which we know that you frequent…that includes your house, your car, the state capitol, and well, I won’t tell you all of them because that’s just no fun…we will “get rid of” (in which I mean kill) you….Please make your peace with God as soon as possible and say goodbye to your loved ones….YOU WILL DIE!!!
Only two months ago, President Barack Obama, Senator Dick Durbin and these same media outlets were clamoring for civility after the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords by a deranged gunman. Many accused Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, and conservative radio hosts of creating the atmosphere that caused the shooting. Palin’s greatest sin was placing a gun crosshair over “targeted” districts. The Tea Party’s guilt came from claiming the Obama Healthcare Plan establishes “death panels”…which it does.
