"Membership Building"=Compulsory Unionism

Justin Hakes — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:53:05 -0500

A Washington Post piece about yesterday's NLRB protests by paid union professionals against recent NLRB decisions, including Right to Work's Dana/Metaldyne victory for employees, characterizes the decision repeating the doublespeak often trotted out by union officials:

"One of the board's decisions, issued Sept. 29, limits a key membership-building technique..."

Not to mention the fact that in the underlying cases 35% and 50% of employees respectively signed petitions for an election to toss out the unwanted United Auto Workers union as soon as it was recognized! Perhaps a "key involuntary membership building" scheme would be a more accurate characterization.

This article did not recognize that these challenges to abusive "card check" organizing were employee driven, and would've been well served to add this perspective.

And speaking of which, you can read more about Dana/Metaldyne in the cover story of the latest Foundaiton Action, available hot off the presses here.

Drop the L??

Justin Hakes — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:35:04 -0500

Mine workers union boss Cecil Roberts went on a tirade today accusing the NLRB of being the "Right to Work" Board. We must have missed something.

Protests

"Membership Building"=Compulsory Unionism

Drop the L??