Washington, DC (January 30, 2009)<\/b> \u2013 President Barack Obama issued two decrees today intended to corral millions more American workers into forced unionism while blacklisting non-union employees from working on taxpayer funded projects.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cAfter spending more than a billion dollars in forced union dues to get Obama elected, the union bosses have received their first major payoff \u2013 two executive orders intended to grease the rails for coercive union organizing, give the Secretary of Labor the power to blacklist union-targeted employers and employees, and keep workers in the dark about their rights to refrain from union membership,\u201d said Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. \u201cObama\u2019s two executive orders serve one basic goal: to seize more forced dues revenue to fund Big Labor\u2019s political agenda.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\nObama repealed Executive Order 13201 signed by President George W. Bush which had helped ensure that employees of federal contractors were informed of their rights under the U.S. Supreme Court case Communication Workers v. Beck<\/i> (1988). Won by attorneys at the National Right to Work Foundation, Beck<\/i> held that private-sector employees may be compelled to pay certain union dues, but may not be compelled to pay any dues or fees earmarked for union politics, lobbying, and other non-bargaining activities.\n<\/p>\n
\nPresident Obama included the revocation of Beck<\/i> rights notices in an executive order advertising, and essentially endorsing, the formation of unions under a theory (long discredited by academic research) that forcing employees into union collectives will somehow prevent \u201csubstantial obstructions to the free flow of commerce.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\nThe executive order also purports to give the Secretary of Labor the authority to determine what will be required by the notice, the authority to investigate violations, to hold hearings, and the power to punish violators of all federal labor laws mentioned in the notice. In effect, the Secretary of Labor would become an additional judge, jury, and executioner of federal labor laws with respect to federal contractors. Most importantly, the Secretary would determine whether a contractor would be fired by the federal government (apparently where the contractor has not even been found to have violated any laws by the law enforcement body of jurisdiction). Even President Bill Clinton stopped short of attempting to give the Secretary of Labor a "blacklisting" power, which is almost certainly unlawful.\n<\/p>\n
\nAnother new order effectively bars federal contractors from communicating truthful information about unionization to their employees.\n<\/p>\n
\n\u201cIt\u2019s disgusting to see this blatant payoff to Big Labor only two weeks into Obama\u2019s term,\u201d continued Mix. \u201cToday, President Obama has sent an ominous message to the 93 percent of private sector workers in America who, for whatever reasons, have chosen not to unionize: You\u2019re not welcome here.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
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\nThe executive orders can be read here<\/a> and here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Washington, DC (January 30, 2009)<\/b> \u2013 President Barack Obama issued two decrees today intended to corral millions more American workers into forced unionism while blacklisting non-union employees from working on taxpayer funded projects.<\/p>\n \n\u201cAfter spending more than a billion dollars in forced union dues to get Obama elected, the union bosses have received their first major payoff \u2013 two executive orders intended to grease the rails for coercive union organizing, give the Secretary of Labor the power to blacklist union-targeted employers and employees, and keep workers in the dark about their rights to refrain from union membership,\u201d said Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. \u201cObama\u2019s two executive orders serve one basic goal: to seize more forced dues revenue to fund Big Labor\u2019s political agenda.\u201d<\/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-2787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n