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American Bar Association Presents Another Biased Panel on Right to Work Cases: Individual Employees' Perspective Again Barred

Patrick Semmens — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:40:52 -0400

In what has become an annual (or rather semi-annual) tradition, the increasingly discredited American Bar Association (ABA) is once again pointedly excluding the viewpoints of individual employees who don't want a union in their workplace.

The intellectually dishonest organization is holding its second annual Labor and Employment Law Continuing Legal Education Conference in Denver this September. The cover of the event brochure (pdf) trumpets a panel titled "Hot Topic: Neutrality Agreements, Card Checks, and Voluntary Recognition After Dana."

America's Employees Deserve Better

Justin Hakes — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:21:48 -0400

The Wall Street Journal's related article about Right to Work attorneys' victory for employees earlier this month says:

Organized labor, which has long criticized the (National Labor Relations) board under the Bush administration, charges that the recent activity is a partisan push, following several decisions reversing rulings made during the Clinton administration.

You've gotta be kidding me. Additionally, the agency has dropped the ball on these Right to Work Foundation-assisted cases.

Finally, the article fails to recognize that the Dana/Metaldyne decision doesn't even protect the very employees that brought the case! One thing's for sure, America's independent-mined employees deserve better than they've gotten on the whole from the Bush NLRB.

Chiming In

Justin Hakes — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:45:39 -0400

AFL-CIO head honcho John Sweeney and SEIU chief Andy Stern both chimed in about last week's victory on behalf of employees by Right to Work attorneys. Sweeney cites a previous NLRB decision calling coercive card check unionization drives "a favored element of national policy."

What a joke. As previously cited, the Board in this decision cited:

“Card checks are less reliable because they lack secrecy and procedural safeguards… union card-solicitation campaigns have been accompanied by misinformation… workers sometimes sign union authorization cards…to get the person off their back.”

Stern, however, gets one thing right when he says:

"The NLRB has become a caricature of itself, and as a nation, we should be embarrassed by governing bodies that fail to consider even the most basic needs and rights of workers.”

How true. The NLRB has failed America's workers in many other Foundation cases. Here are just a few.