Washington, DC (March 21, 2011) \u2013 The National Right to Work Foundation, a charitable organization that provides free legal assistance to employees nationwide, submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), asking for information about a series of Google Ads placed by the NLRB from 2008 to 2011.<\/p>\n
According to an earlier NLRB statement, the Board received a free Google Ads trial in 2008 and has since discontinued the program. However, other reports indicate that NLRB Google Ads appeared as recently as February of this year. <\/p>\n
Moreover, these ads only contained information about workers\u2019 ability to organize or join unions. No record of ads about workers\u2019 rights to refrain from union activities or remove a union from their workplace has been found.<\/p>\n
In the wake of former SEIU lawyer Craig Becker\u2019s recess appointment to the Board, numerous media outlets have questioned the NLRB\u2019s ability to impartially administer labor law. <\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the NLRB\u2019s Google Ads campaign does nothing to dispel these fears. Foundation attorneys are concerned that the NLRB\u2019s ad buys publicized information about workers\u2019 rights to organize or join a union without providing equally important information about the rights of employees to refrain from union membership or eject unwanted unions from their workplaces.<\/p>\n
The Foundation\u2019s FOIA request seeks all documented business transactions between the Board and Google related to online ad buys. Foundation attorneys believe that this information is necessary to determine the extent of the NLRB\u2019s pro-Big Labor bias and to inform the public of how the Board\u2019s budget is being spent.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve raised persistent questions about the impartiality of the NLRB that have yet to be addressed, and what looks like a selective information campaign through Google Ads is another example of this trend,\u201d said Patrick Semmens, Legal Information Director for the National Right to Work Foundation. \u201cWe call upon the NLRB to immediately release any and all information related to this ad campaign to address public concerns about its perceived pro-Big Labor bias.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Washington, DC (March 21, 2011) \u2013 The National Right to Work Foundation, a charitable organization that provides free legal assistance to employees nationwide, submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), asking for information about a series of Google Ads placed by the NLRB from 2008 to 2011.<\/p>\n
According to an earlier NLRB statement, the Board received a free Google Ads trial in 2008 and has since discontinued the program. However, other reports indicate that NLRB Google Ads appeared as recently as February of this year. <\/p>\n
Moreover, these ads only contained information about workers\u2019 ability to organize or join unions. No record of ads about workers\u2019 rights to refrain from union activities or remove a union from their workplace has been found.<\/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-2929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n