Senate Republicans Cave: Filibuster ‘Compromise’ Keeps NLRB Firmly Under Union Control UPDATED!

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Senate Republicans Cave: Filibuster ‘Compromise’ Keeps NLRB Firmly Under Union Control


Union bosses to pick[ed] Obama's labor board replacements

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)

Well, the fix is in–and, frankly, it looks as though Senate Republicans have caved in on everything–and have little to show for it.



In their effort to “save” the filibuster, according to Politico, Senators John McCain (RINO-AZ) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) brokered a deal that gives Democrats nearly everything* they wanted.



In sum, here’s how it shakes out: Harry Reid gets to keep the threat of using the nuclear option at some later point. In exchange, the GOP gets to keep the pretense of having the ability to filibuster in return for caving in on five out of seven of Obama’s controversial appointments:



■Richard Cordray gets to head the Consumer Financial Protection Board–that’s a done deal as of this morning

■Thomas Perez will become Secretary of Labor

■Gina McCarthy will head the EPA

■Union attorney and current NLRB Chairman Mark Pearce gets to keep his job

■* Obama’s constitutionally-challenged NLRB members, Operating Engineers union attorney Richard Griffin and ex-Kennedy lawyer Sharon Block will get dumped but…

…Here’s the kicker, according to the New York Times:



But organized labor would be allowed to recommend their replacement nominees, who would be confirmed before the end of the month.



So, Republicans avoided the nuclear option by ‘compromising’ and giving Barack Obama almost everyone he wanted. And, for those he wanted but did not get, union bosses get to pick their replacement nominees.



As Dave Weigel at Slate.com observes:



By giving Democrats nearly everything they asked for, Republicans avoided a change to the filibuster.



Notwithstanding the fact that he and his fellow union bosses get to pick the Griffin’s and Block’s replacements, CWA union boss Larry Cohen–whose union spent hundreds of thousands of its members’ dues to kill the filibuster–still isn’t happy though:



“There is not one intellectual argument, either about Block and Griffin, why those nominations shouldn’t go forward. It’s just [Republicans] want their pound of flesh from working people in this country, and this is where they’re going to get it because they were able to convince four or five Democrats to go with them,” he said.



“Those Democrats will know we know who they are, and we know, as a progressive coalition in this country, you will not split up the fight, and we will continue to work together … to fix the Senate,” Cohen added.



In other words, Cohen isn’t happy getting nearly the whole loaf, he wants the heel and the crumbs as well.



The reality is, for the Republicans to cave in to nearly every one of Barack Obama’s nominees–save the two unconstitutional NLRB appointments–in order to save the filibuster, it won’t mean anything in the long run.



Union bosses will still control the National Labor Relations Board, the Department of Labor, and they got their CFCB pick put in place as well; radical environmentalists still get the EPA; and, as importantly, Harry Reid and his Democrats cohorts can still threaten to use the nuclear option whenever Republicans threaten to get out of line.



That’s some compromise.



Update…

It seems that before the ink was dry on the GOP caving in, Barack Obama had selected his NLRB replacement nominees. According to Politico, they are AFL-CIO associate general counsel Nancy Schiffer and Kent Hirozawa, chief counsel to NLRB Chairman Mark Pearce



As part of the deal to avoid the so-called nuclear option, Republicans agreed not to block the replacement nominees for Richard Griffin and Sharon Block, which were picked Tuesday in consultation with AFL-CIO head Richard Trumka.



This begs the question: Do Senate Republicans feel a little duped yet…just a little?

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“In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.”

Ayn Rand

Action Alert: Rein In The Rogue NLRB

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Action Alert: Rein In The Rogue NLRB

by Bret Jacobson


You may be aware of this week’s NLRB showdown, where two Democratic Members of the National Labor Relations Board will try on Tuesday to overhaul rules governing 6 million workplaces and about 100 million working Americans to make it easier for union bosses to organize new members. The consequences are serious: employees will get less information about what they’re signing up for and employers will have less chance to talk to their workers. The unelected bureaucrats say they’re helping employees, but really it’s just to help the big political spenders from Big Labor. But you can help stop this farce!







While the Obama administration doesn’t seem to want to listen to small business owners, other leaders in D.C. will get the message. So sign a petition to top national leaders via Halt The Assault or contact your Member of Congress to support commonsense legislation to make the playing field fair once again (Americans For Prosperity’s site can help if you wish to support the Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act).



Bloggers can do even more by embedding a petition code into their site.





Every little bit helps when small business owners live in a world where facing federal bureaucrat regulations is their biggest single problem and Americans just want to get back to work.

TAKE ACTION: America’s Job Creators Are About To Be Sucker Punched & You Have Until Wednesday To Comment

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TAKE ACTION: America’s Job Creators Are About To Be Sucker Punched & You Have Until Wednesday To Comment




Posted by LaborUnionReport (Profile)






 You need to act before Wednesday. At a time when the Obama Administration is clamoring to save or create jobs, his Department of Labor is about to sucker punch America’s job creators with an unprecedented regulatory overreach—all to curry more favor with union bosses.







On Wednesday, the public comment period will be closing on a Department of Labor proposal that the majority of America knows nothing about and even fewer understand.



If enacted as drafted, the union cronies within the Department of Labor will require every private-sector employer and service provider (whether or not they ever talk directly to employees) to file financial statements with the Obama Labor Department if the service provider’s services indirectly affect employees’ choice to unionize or not.



Unless you act by commenting here, this rule change will likely take affect. [See link to and sample comment below.]

Once the financial information—which includes the service provider’s entire company (or firm’s) receipts (even from other clients)—are submitted, it will become public information. It will then be published on the Department of Labor’s website and available to union bosses. What’s more, willful failure to file the financial information is a criminal violation, punishable by either imprisonment, a fine, or both.



In June, when the Department of Labor, at the behest of union bosses, issued a 160-page proposal to expand the interpretation of “advice” under a little-known law called the Labor-Management Reporting & Disclosure Act, few understood just how deeply the DOL’s proposed rule change could affect employers and consultants of all stripes–not just those involved in labor relations. Most still don’t understand it.



In addition to companies who hire attorneys to assist them with union issues, the Department of Labor’s broad expansion into areas that most would not consider remotely connected to unions, but because it could indirectly affect [read deter] employees’ choice to unionize, the Department of Labor will likely call this “persuader activity.”



Here are the types of vendors (and the employers that hire them or purchase goods from them) who will likely be caught up in the DOL’s new proposed rules:



•Writers (or authors) who may write a website, publication, sell a book, or other material that may promote a positive employee relations culture, thereby dissuading employees from unionizing

•Website designers who may be contracted to design and build a website to be used for internal communications with employees

•Consultants who coach management on how to structure and effectively manage employee teams

•Employee engagement consultants who help companies and employees with positive employee relations

•Productivity consultants who design and implement quality, or any other type of teams that may give employees a voice in the success of their companies’ products

•Safety consultants who help establish safety committees that give employees the ability to voice safety concerns to their employer to resolve safety issues

•Human resources consultants that design, write, or implement employee handbooks or policies

•Compensation and benefit consultants who design and administer any type of benefit, pay or incentive plans for companies

•Consultants who conduct surveys to determine employee satisfaction at their jobs

Since the Department of Labor’s phraseology is: “…activities that have as a direct or indirect object to, explicitly or implicitly, influence the decisions of employees with respect to forming, joining or assisting a union, collective bargaining, or any protected concerted activity (such as a strike) in the workplace,” the type of activity that an employer and consultant may be required to report to the Department of Labor is almost endless.





Again, the public comment period closes on Wednesday, September 21, 2011. All comments must be received on or before Wednesday.



If you do not act by submitting a comment, it is likely this rule change will go into effect causing many job creators, instead of focusing on job creation, to spend more time and resources on more paperwork, or risk going to jail. Moreover, it will cause many unsuspecting service providers who currently do not know they will fall into the Department of Labor’s trap to either violate the law, or open their personal, company or firm earnings to the Department of Labor, the public and union bosses.



Below is a sample comment provided, courtesy of the Labor Relations Institute. It is suggested that you download, individualize or personalize it before sending to the Department of Labor, then submit your comments to the Department of Labor here.



LRI Sample Comment for DOL Persuader Rule Change
http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/09/19/take-action-americas-job-creators-are-about-to-be-sucker-punched-you-have-until-wednesday-to-comment/

The choice is yours: You can act by submitting a comment, or you can give union bosses what they want–the ability to target more employers.



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