**Washington, DC (July 13, 2006)** \u2013 Stefan Gleason, Vice President of the National Right to Work Foundation, made the following statement in response to today\u2019s protest by AFL-CIO union conglomerate professionals outside the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB):<\/p>\n
\u201cThe public shouldn\u2019t be fooled by AFL-CIO professionals shedding crocodile tears about recent National Labor Relations Board activity. They should instead be outraged that the Bush NLRB has done almost nothing to reverse substantial damage inflicted on independent employees\u2019 rights by the labor agency during the Clinton era.<\/p>\n
\u201cAccording to a study by Jones Day attorney G. Roger King prepared for the American Bar Association, during the period of 1994-2001, the Clinton NLRB overturned 60 long-standing cases for a jaw-dropping 1181 years of combined precedent<\/u>. <\/p>\n
\u201cThese activist rulings increased union coercive privileges, entrenched incumbent unions, sharply undercut the rights of employees who disagree with a union, and diminished employer free speech. <\/p>\n
\u201cYet, the Bush NLRB has been plagued by more than 5 years of paralysis and lack of productivity. As a result, the Bush NLRB has only overturned 9 precedents in the past 5 years, and several of them were insignificant procedural rulings. The Clinton NLRB turned labor law upside down, and the Bush NLRB has yet to right the ship.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat concerns union officials the most is that the NLRB is considering several National Right to Work Foundation cases brought for workers who are desperately seeking protection from Big Labor\u2019s increasingly \u2018in your face\u2019 organizing tactics. In these many long-pending cases, employees are pleading for the NLRB\u2019s protection from union coercion and relief from Big Labor\u2019s efforts to deny employees even so much as a secret-ballot vote when choosing whether to unionize.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile workers seeking to remain union-free face public interrogations, bribery, threats, and stalkings by union operatives during these Top Down organizing drives, the Bush NLRB has dithered. If the agency fails to rule on the workers\u2019 cases challenging these abusive tactics, employees face the further erosion of their freedom to choose whether to unionize.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
**Washington, DC (July 13, 2006)** \u2013 Stefan Gleason, Vice President of the National Right to Work Foundation, made the following statement in response to today\u2019s protest by AFL-CIO union conglomerate professionals outside the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB): \u201cThe public shouldn\u2019t be fooled by AFL-CIO professionals shedding crocodile tears about recent National Labor Relations Board […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n