Obama NLRB Nominee Craig Becker’s Smoking Gun?
by Don LoosContact Your Senators NOW and Urge them To Vote No on Radical Craig Becker’s Nomination.
The Senate is scheduled to vote TODAY on the nomination of radical union apologist Craig Beck to the National Labor Relations Board.
It’s vital you contact your Senators IMMEDIATELY to help derail this out of control union lackey from being on this board.
You can find your Senators direct lines through this link.
One recent piece of evidence to add to the growing Becker rap sheet:
In last week’s U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing, Obama nominee Craig Becker clearly tried to put distance between himself and his former client ACORN:
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) asked Becker this question:
“Do you perform work for and provide advice to ACORN or ACORN-affiliated groups while employed by your current employers or on a volunteer basis?”
Becker responded, “Senator McCain, I have never done so.” (Emphasis added)[2]
Becker statement to the Senate Committee is that he has never provided legal advice to ACORN or to an ACORN affiliate while employed by SEIU; but, an ACORN produced report directly conflicts Becker’s statement.
ACORN’s “2006 YEAR ENDING – YEAR BEGINNING REPORTS” publication (a compilation of reports filed by ACORN organizations) declared that Becker while serving as SEIU Counsel was also a counsel for ACORN:
“Legal Representation – In the past we have used Steve Bachmann and the CCI legal team; SEIU counsel, Craig Becker; Art Martin in Southern Illinois…” (Emphasis added)[3]
In addition as the National Right To Work Committee’s report on Becker noted, ACORN’s Founder Wade Rathke produced some interesting commentary about Becker that contradicts his statement as well:
“Here’s a big win no matter how you shake and bake it: Craig Becker being nominated for a seat on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)! … having crossed paths with Craig for more than 20 years, finally we have a situation where a brilliant, effective, and pro-worker/pro-union lawyer will be on the NLRB. …
“I can remember Keith Kelleher[4] negotiating the subsidy for [ACORN’s] SEIU Local 880 in Chicago and always making sure that there was the money for the organizers, but that SEIU was also still willing to allow access to Craig [Becker].”[5]
Rathke even credits Becker with the massive forced unionization of home health care workers.[6]
“For my money Craig’s signal contribution has been his work in crafting and executing the legal strategies …leading to the membership of perhaps a half-million such workers in unions like SEIU, AFSCME, CWA, and the AFT.
“Craig was the key lawyer from the beginning in the early 1980’s who was able to piece together the arguments and representation that allowed those of us involved in trying to organize home health care workers in Illinois, Massachusetts, …His role was often behind the scenes devising the strategy with the organizer and lawyers, writing the briefs for others to file, and putting all of the pieces together, but he was the go-to-guy on all of this.”[7] (Emphasis added)
Becker Sought International Jurisdiction Over NLRB
Becker has appealed to international organizations to apply pressure to the NLRB arguing that the NLRB should follow “mainstream international laws” rather than U.S. laws.
In 2006, Becker as AFL-CIO Associate Counsel spearheaded an AFL-CIO complaint to the United Donations against the NLRB ruling that nurse shift supervisors are indeed supervisors. The AFL-CIO appeal to an international body beyond the sovereign government of the United States and the NLRB. This is the very same NLRB where Becker now wants to sit as a member.
“‘This will demonstrate how far outside the mainstream of accepted international law the U.S. is moving,’ said Craig Becker, a legal counsel to the AFL-CIO.” (Emphasis added)[8]
Becker’s ACORN associations and his deference to international laws are only a fraction of Becker’s whole public record that calls his nomination into question and the need for you to act now to stop his confirmation by your U.S. Senators.
Here are some additional reasons that you might mention to your U.S. Senators when you call or e-mail them:
Craig Becker wrote that Secret ballot “elections are profoundly undemocratic.”
- He believes that a worker’s choice should be between which unions workers should be forced to join; he does not believe a worker should have the choice not to join to a union.
- Becker argued that just as U.S. citizens cannot opt against having a congressman, workers should not be able to choose against having a union as their monopoly-bargaining agent. “‘Employees’ only choice,” explained Mr. Becker, “should be over which set of union officials get ‘exclusive’ power to negotiate their wages, benefits, and work rules.”
- In addition, Becker through his writings has attacked the members of The National Right To Work, and will be incapable of fairly judging any cases that the National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation brings before the NLRB.
Becker does not express a belief in individual rights of workers to freely choose to join or not to join a union. He supports the idea that workers should be forced into collectives like unions that dominate and control individual working conditions. Becker’s beliefs are the antithesis of American democracy and liberty, and his beliefs will have disastrous results if implemented by the NLRB.
It’s vital you help defeat this nomination
Contact your Senators TODAY!
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[1]NLRB – National Labor Relations Board: an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1935 to administer the National Labor Relations Act, the primary law governing relations between unions and employers in the private sector.
[2] Becker Lied to McCain by Matthew Vadum in The American Spectator (2010)
[3] 2006 YEAR END – YEAR BEGIN REPORTS
[4] Keith Kelleher is the head organizer of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 880 and has been a field organizer, lead organizer and head organizer for ACORN, the United Labor Unions (ULU), and SEIU Local 880 for over 20 years. (The People Shall Rule by Keith Kelleher and Madeline Talbott, 2000)
[5] Becker to the NLRB by Wade Rathke in Wade Rathke: Chief Organizer Blog
[6] This is a scheme where the state declares independent contractors who receive grants from the state to take care of people in their homes are employees of the state for collective bargaining purposes only. These created “employees” have no state pension, no state insurance, nor any other benefits of state employees.
[7] Becker to the NLRB by Wade Rathke in Wade Rathke: Chief Organizer Blog
[8] “AFL-CIO files complaint with U.N. labor group; Protest is aimed at ruling on role of supervisors” by Will Lester, ASSOCIATED PRESS in the Buffalo News. 23 Oct 2006: B7.
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I'd love to contact my Senators offices but, to be honest, I can't even try to fool myself that Durbin and Burris would do anything but ignore it and vote in favor of this nomination anyway.
Ahhh, the realities of Illinois……
I've got a sneaking suspicion that Jim Webb (D-VA) is against this nomination and will join a Republican filibuster.
Another Union thug trying to weasel his way into a power position under the Obamao umbrella.
One good bit of news today, Sen Ben Nelson expressed his disapproval of Becker and his intention to vote NO.
We'll see if he follows the same pattern as the health care bill though.
Don't feel bad, its the realities of DemoTards in office. I have the same problem with Ross in AR.
Well here in Maryland Craig Becker being a "Union First" is a badge of honor and will insure MD's 2 senator's WILL vote for him !!!
Try calling Boxer and Feinstein. HA! I did last week about this vote. Also funny to know is that Boxer's office was the only office on that floor open when "Snowmageddon" hit D.C. Guess when you are the Senator that creates Cap-n-Tax and climate gate, you have to show up.
My Senators wouldn't vote for the scum bag if he was the last choice. Fabian Socialist have no place in our White House the ones we have now is too dam many. WAKE UP AMERICA the revolution has begun, fight on.
remember one thing about this lot…
That the action- the real down and dirty stuff- will be behind the scenes. While we beat oour breasts and gnash our teeth about healthcare and cap and trade, literally dozens of back room plots are going on. The forced unionization of hundreds of thousands of workers, and the end of right to work states are HIGH on their agenda- but under the radar.
Becker is yet another evil minion. There are MANY more yet to come…
Unions suck ass..
That Craig Becker is a lawyer is all you need to know. It's so funny how they all laugh at charges of perjury.
He's also a typical transplant from CA, Chicago, and DC, no doubt helping to craft the disasters in those places.
A little more notice would have been nice?
I know how my Senators in TX will be voting, yet I contacted them anyway. Those of you in places like IL and MD should speak up for sure!! Durbin, Burris, and others NEED to hear from the people, whether you think it will sway a decision or not.
I saw on Michelle Malkin's site that Ben "Cornhusker Kickback" Nelson is joining the Republican filibuster. Maybe we can block this Marxist.
waste of time as they are all crooks on the take
Just as Toyota was engaged in tense negotiations with federal officials over problems with sudden acceleration, the automaker's North American subsidiary donated more than $75,000 to two major political committees.
The U.S. subsidiary of the Japanese automaker donated $50,400 to the Democratic Governors Association in November and December of last year. The company gave $25,000 to the Republican Governors Association in November, having already sent a check for $25,000 in April.
Most of the contributions landed as the car maker began tense discussions with the U.S. Department of Transportation over mounting concerns with random acceleration in several of its models.
Toyota is not allowed to donate directly to federal office holders or candidates. But these contributions were legal. Corporations — even the U.S. subsidiaries of those with foreign owners — are permitted to donate to the major gubernatorial fundraising committees, and no limits have been placed on how much they can give.
Still, these donations appear to have been unusual. Toyota does not have a large public footprint when it comes to political giving. There is no report of the company making a similar donation to the governors associations during the prior three years. And the automaker does not have a registered political action committee under its company banner, though foreign-owned corporations can establish and contribute to PACs as long as the PACs are overseen by an American citizen or green-card holder.
Toyota Spent $5 Million on Lobbying in 2009
Most political contributions bearing the corporate name have come from U.S. dealerships. For instance, Wilfred Templeton Fort Myers Toyota in Florida gave the RGA $20,000 last year. And a PAC formed by Gulf States Toyota, a regional association of 150 dealers, handed out $1,000 donations to eight Republicans and four Democrats from Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma.
The automaker does, however, spend prolifically on lobbying. Last year, Toyota spent more than $5 million on its lobbying efforts, according to figures compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics. Eight major lobbying firms identify Toyota as a client.
And as the company's difficulties have become more complex, its Washington team appears to be growing. Earlier this month, Toyota hired the DC public affairs firm The Glover Park Group. The Washington-based firm includes principals Joe Lockhart, a White House spokesman under President Bill Clinton, and Joel Johnson, a former Clinton senior adviser, as well as Kevin Madden, a communications specialist for Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney.
Crazy Babs and liberal Ben have never met a union cause they could not embrace.
I'm pretty sure Sen. Coburn & Sen. Inhofe don't need my input on this one.
With this ram-rad regime the 24/7 news cycle can barely keep up.
And the beat goes on…… The progressives can not, I repeat, CAN NOT, be who they really are. They must lie, lie, lie. But they are soooooo slow that they do not recognize that the msm is not the only one out there "reporting." There actually are other outlets that tell the people the whole story, not just the progressive narrative. I really do hope that Team Obama keeps on doing what they have been doing, Holder keeps it up, Pelosi, Reid, et. al. stay true to their clueless and progressive poll-driven "principles". They become a bigger joke each and every day. Look at Fox News and look at their ratings. They are driven very strongly by the totally inept, hapless, clueless and DANGEROUS progressive Obama agenda which they report on and the MSM is dying because they insist on kissing up to the messiah and his goon squad of advisors and politicians. Yeah, Barry, you go now. More speeches, interviews, etc.,etc.
You are playing into their hands. Stand up and raise hell!
True. And did you mean Rham-rod? lol
That felt good, clicked on the link, " direct lines through this link. ", above, talked to Sen. Feinstein's office and left a message for Sen. Boxer to vote against the nomination of craig beck for NLRB. Hope these two Senators are
paying attention…
Suggest you call your Senators too, just click the link – fast and easy.
This can absolutely NOT be allowed to happen!! America has had just about enough of this criminal administration!!! They must be stopped!!!
Fantastic investigating! Indeed thanks for keeping us informed. Agree with someone else here, a little late for We the People here, who do call, write and e-mail our Senators and Reps to do much on this one. I think there will be severe reprecussions on this approval if it takes place.
Absolutely right, Ashrak. I've attempted contacting both Durbin and Burris over my concerns of the direction of our country. Their response is to reiterate their 100% support for Obama and all his policies. Durbin and Burris are just bad, immoral people that are like a cancer growing on our republic. They don't have a shred of decency. Thankfully, Burris is leaving but I think that seat will have to be pried out of Durbin's cold, dead hands.
Senators Reed and Whitehouse of Rhode Island are Obama appendages. A snowball has a better chance in hell.
This reads more like it's from *stuff you just can't make up file*. Unbelievable. They are doing a test vote already, right now, on C-span2.
I'm going to contact Sentors Fienstien and Boxer??? Com'on now have you fliiped your lid – you've got
to be joking. If I did that here in CA. I'd be the one thrown in jail!!!
Didn't Becker just get caught in a blatant lie to a US Senator? Isn't that illegal? Was he under oath at the committee hearing? Somebody call Eric Holder – I bet he will be all over this. lol. Acorn, SEIU are all pieces of filth. Their ilk have no place anywhere near our government.
Just did and got through to an actual person in Sen. Feinstein's office left Se. Boxer a nice message.
You can find your Senators direct lines through this link (in above 1st paragraph).
The vote for cloture didn't pass, he's toast!
Lincoln and Nelson voted with Republicans against cloture.
Becker’s nomination just failed to reach cloture, say bye, bye!
This just in…….vote did not support the union goon getting the nod.
Dodged a bullet on that one!
I live in Virginia, and I do not share your "sneaking suspicion". Jim Webb is a turncoat weasel of the highest order who will be thrown out with the rest of the Nation's trash at the first available opportunity! Sorry, Spliff. This bitch is going down.
I like you, but you are WAY off base on this one!
Just proves you have to be a liar to be in government….
Thank God!
I like your style, enough…but as a Virginian, I feel like Maryland has some apologies to make to the Nation for the Representatives they've sent to Washington over the last 30 years. Present company excepted.
errr..boot
Indeed, my friend. we have 3 more miserable years to endure…at a minimum. The damage will take generations to repair.
Cool, they threw the book at him then gave him the boot!
He deserved it.
Now that Scott Brown is in the Senate you can expect to see a lot more "moderation" from the so-called moderate Democrats. Their votes won't get you to 60 anyhow, so they can go back to pretending.
BIG TIME…WITH A STRAW!
True
I hope the damage is done though and their constituents don't have short term memory loss this November.
Question: What do you have when you've got a lawyer up to his neck in cement?
Answer: Not enough cement.
the world- as we know it- will change dramatically…
We are facing an economic disaster that will make 1929 look like a picnic. And this lot WANTS it to happen.
No good crisis, you know. It doesn't have to happen, either. But a one world socialist government cannot come to fruition if the planet is healthy.
No one would buy it. No, they want us to beg for food, and shelter. And to 'lead' us back to prosperity- their version.
Time is short…
You are correct, of course. but I subscribe to the Emiliano Zapata school of philosophy: \”It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!\”
More likely she's too afraid to come home. Feinstein gets back to me every time I email. D'ya suppose it matters that it's usually 2-3 weeks after the issue is voted on?
/sarc
Just another dingleberry that'll hang around that turd in the oval orifice.
I beg to differ. Union bosses are the problem. Union workers are as angry as the rest of us. They work hard, raise their families, and are generally disgusted with Washington. Unfortunately, they are between a rock and a hard place. Complain out loud? Refuse to get out the Dem vote? See how good your work assignments are. And most of their jobs are union only. The dirty secret is there is no freedom in the unions. And the legal eveidence of executive's mishandling of their power in the name of the members is nearly impossible to get. Make no mistake. It's about power for the executives, and as long as they have free use of mandatory dues, the actual members have no voice. And no, they can't strike against the union. There you'd be fired. Then blacklisted, looks great on a resume. No references either. Now feed your family and make your mortgage.
A friend lives in Ohio. Where nearly every elected official is far-left, self-superior to the little people.
Has advice: CALL THEM. They might pretend they don't Hear you, they do most definitely Fear you. They are quite aware we are coming for them in November, and it's important that they hear us every day. Ruin their sleep, their appetites, keep them shaking. So that they all know what it feels like to displease their bosses, We The People.
The ones you're sure will ignore you and vote Obama's agenda should be called 3 times as much. I live in Pennsylvania. Imagine how we're going to treat Arlen. Crash and Burn.
I read he didn't get the okay.
Bingo, he went down in flames, chalk up another kill-mark.
Let the president have the people he wants and then you can hold him accountable. You are just giving him a built in excuse for if he fails now he can blame it on the minority in the senate… and rightfully so. Keep fighting every nomination and payback is going to be a total b!tch.
This tactic will not stand. The president will use his authority to make recess appointments.
Becker is toast! Can't wait to see who the next POS OBOZO trots out.
Wouldn't be the first time, you'd cheerlead if it suited you.
pfft tactic will not stand, harrumph
rightfully so my arse, newsflash: This IS the payback.
Looks like he came short today. Except for healthcare and Janitors or food service, we can push the jobs to China. They of course have 50 million prisoners that work in manufacturing and get only some food and lodging.
i want the names of the the yea voters so i can keep track of the progressives in congress.
Don't think I don't do exactly that my friend.
I already have Durbin's number as it pertains to not responding to constituents. He outright ignored a DVD of dozens of people asking straight up questions and an additional letter signed by over a hundred people asking him again to respond to what was delivered to his office. Unless he pulls a Dodd and skates out, he will be in a position to have to address his choices publicly – when the time comes.
As Mr. # 2 in the Senate has time to chair a campaign for the intended Democrat successor for Burris (Alexi), at a time when the Senate isn't performing, he only adds to the things he will be answering for soon enough.
You bet it is payback. From the Bush Energy bill to Miguel Estrada, the Democrat minority blocked everything they could for as long as they could. The Democrats had something that the Republicans never did. 60 votes in the Senate. Yet STILL they didn't do anything , except spend massive amounts of money this nation does not have. Their bluff got called and simply turning back to the politics of blaming everyone else will not save them.
Democrats have nobody to blame but themselves. Obama knows it too. The push is already on for the resignations to begin, I give it two weeks before the first one goes and several will follow in short order.
"Democrats have nobody to blame but themselves."
three pointer, nothin but net
You can find em, I get an email with the lowdown on about everything they do, just the voting record and the bill number, no hackery, I can't even remember what site offers it….congress.org I think.
They in fact they confirmed Patricia Smith to be the Labor Department's solicitor today 60-37 w/3nv
Payback? With what, loser?
Don't bring a knfe to an artillery duel, lib. The pain has only just begun for you pinkos. The American people are taking their country back!
And you'd be just fine with a radical lunatic like Becker on the NLRB, I'm sure. Talk about defending the indefensible!
Jesus, what ignorant assholes Lefties are.
good point mrsh, it is the union leaders and their thugs. I cosistently have to remind myself of that, when complaing about the unions
No votes for Becker should count as yes votes for the constituents. Vote these damn progressives out of office.
I believe if he made this recess appointment it would be unprecedented.
Bush 43 made several, but none who'd been rejected (effectively) by filibuster; he appointed those whose nominations never even came to the floor for a vote.
But, I say go for it; it will just hasten the end more quickly. Businesses will ignore NLRB decisions and directives, and what will Congress do? Nothing. Nothing they can do.
seiu is a terrorist group seeking to end America
Very good folks! I called my senators, Webb and Warner, both Dems, and it appears they both voted for unions over Americans.
The Becker nomination:
In the remake of the movie "Titanic" the ship is going to miss the ice berg in time and thus, will continue to sail on to America.
Put the life boats away for now.
Hahahahhahahahahhahahhahhahahahahhahahhaha.
So what you are saying is to the people of MA, and to the country as a whole, screw you. Is that your point tool?
Spin on it jerk.
Um, no, his appointments must be approved buy the Senate. There is this thing called the constitution.
C – o – n – s – t – i – t – u – t – i – o – n.
Google it jerk.
The Dems also stalled a whole lot of President Bush's judge nominees, which left huge gaping holes in this nation's court system, which was/is an outrage.
This tactic SHALL stand and recess appointments are only allowed, when the open position is deemed to be something extraordinary, which this nominee most assuredly isn't; mik!
Total shutdown of the confirmation process is not payback. It is a political tactic and it will backfire.
Sanity- I think the ALF-CIO have the apoligizing to do to both our states and America as a whole, when JKF wrote the executive order allowing them to unionize he stole all of Americas vote as we had no representation in the creation of these unions and we still have no voice at the table when it comes to contract negotiations, when in fact it is the unions that should have no seat at the table !!! Oh how I dream of a pres. that will rip up that exe. order.. ( To dream the impossible dream)
Duke- SOOOOOOOOO True !!!
Obama-lamebrain could still use a recess appointment.
I believe it was Orion Hatch that advised him not to do it.
You never know with this sneaky bunch of s.o.bs
Hey pal, libs are Americans too. You seem to have lost touch with that inconvenient truth. See you at the polls.
Honestly I have no idea who the guy is. You wouldn't know of him either if some right wing blogger or radio talk show host hadn't told you to oppose him… But the president wants him and he should get whoever he wants and long as he is qualified to serve.
That's not the way it works Dave… google it.
Like you're worried about conservatives?
Sure. And algore's going to recant global warming.
You are about to find out how wrong you are….
That kind of talk doesn't help. Try and maintain some perspective while typing.
Unions are Americans.
No need. I know how the system is supposed to work, so lets have a vote. If they don't want to vote then Obama can use recess appointments.
Since you are never correct about anything, mik, lets just wait and see. ;^)
They want to ruin America as a free market country and our way of life, then to me they are terrorists. seiu attacks Americans that stand up to them. seiu uses strong arm tatics at town hall meetings. seiu supports unions that are NOT in place to better there preformance but to work less and protect the usless……seiu is not for the better of America therefore they are……
Nobody wants to ruin America. It is collective bargaining and it is an American tradition.
The unions are not out to strong arm anyone. They are simply exercising the same rights of assembly as the teapartiers. It's still a free country.
The middle class in this country was built on union labor. Even if you don't belong to a union you benefit from the higher wages corporations are forced to pay to compete for labor. Just the threat of unions is often times enough to motivate employers to treat their people right.
These are not lifetime appointments being held up in the senate. They are the upper management the president needs to conduct the business of state.
Sen. Shelby announced this week he is putting a hold on 70 Obama nominations until he gets the $30 billion in pork he wants for his state. Apparently he backed off when the senate ethics committee threatened to look into his ties with defense contractor lobbyists.
Like Robert Bork, right?
Neither were the holds put on the President Bush nominees "lifetime" positions and maost of them were of far more importance than today's denial.
Of course it's "payback" and good for Shelby; too bad he backed down.
Dems have far more ethical problems ………….CHARLIE RANGLE anyone? ;^)
mik, as I stated before, you are always not just on the wrong side, but incorrect, or would that be fact challenged?
Spot on, j91140 !
Shelby is a coward. I knew he would back down.
A supreme court lifetime appointment. A little different deal than an obscure nominee to run the labor relations board for a couple of years.
HORSEFEATHERS……………………….you didn't know any such thing!
That felt good, clicked on the link, " direct lines through this link. ", above, talked to Sen. Feinstein's office and left a message for Sen. Boxer to vote against the nomination of craig beck for NLRB. Hope these two Senators are
paying attention…
Suggest you call your Senators too, just click the link – fast and easy.
What is important is not what some blogger thinks about him but what the president thinks about him and whether or not he is the best person to advance his agenda. This is the guy Obama wants and apparently he is qualified. He is being held up because of his political views.
Luck for Obama then that you don't get a vote.
VOTE SENATOR BOB CORKER OUT. CALL HIS OFFICE. HE DON'T KNOW HOW HE GOING TO VOTE. BULL SHIT. VOTE HIS ASS OUT!!!!!!!!!!!! SAM WITH HEALT CARE. VOTE HIM OUT THANKS SENATOR LAMAR ALEXANDER. THANKS TO YOU.
JOHN
Not when they are ANTI-AMERICA/AMERICA HATERS, they aren't; they're more akin to fictional Edward Nolan !
Oh yeah, a radical, who wants to disallow Americans their rights, but hand everything to the damned unions, all kinds of things on a silver platter. That must send thrills up your leg, mik.
If it was oaky for Dems to throw a monkey wrench into the passing of GOP presidents' nominees, which IS what they have been doing for decades, then you are a hypocrite to then turn around and make the claims you have been.
It matters what THE AMERICAN PEOPLE think, or does that only matter, when they stupidly go for your side ?
Just give it up, mik. You have no valid argument, you don't even attempt to debate the facts.
What are you doing, just trying to build up your point count?
Unions are groups, they aren't people, only PEOPLE can be "Americans" !
That's awesome. I never of it that way.
That is a weakness that I see mostly on the right fringe… accusing political opponents of being less patriotic or American than ourselves. For one thing, it is almost never true. And it's just bad form.
Unions aren't your enemy. All working class Americans should be thankful that we have collective bargaining to ensure fair pay and benefits. Even if you don't belong to a union you benefit from those who have come before. Just the threat of collective bargaining cant keep employers honest.
You seem more angry than usual this evening red… if that is even possible. Not getting along with mrs. red?
That's because you wear earplugs, blinkers and blindfold over eye putty, whenever anyone other than those whom you agree with talk and/or write anything, mik.
You completely ignore any and ALL things that your side says, writes, and does.
Why do you bother responding to me, mik? Surely you must know that I never let you get away with the muck you post. :^)
It's just kind of fun to tweak you red. My presence here offends you more than most so I pick on you a bit… sorry.
"Redoing" America IS ruining it; mik.
The middle class was NOT "built on union labor". You don't know the history of unions, nor America's middle class.
The Unions and Union "leaders" have "STRONG ARMED" everyone and anyone that crossed their paths.
Tea Partiers aren't out to force businesses to employ more people ( ghost jobs ) than needed, prevent employers from firing incompetents, skim money from their own members, kneecap, or murder those whom they deem to be on "the other side"/scabs…………………………but these are things that union leaders and members have engaged in since their inception.
You deleted that post quickly, mik, but it is in m y mail.
What you said crossed the line and don't think that I'm going to forget it !
Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw…………………your presence doesn't "offend me" at all; however, your posts bore me and the more you post, the more you induce such a feeling of ennuj in me, that I begin to nod off or let my mind wander. And believe me, you really don't want to know just where my mind is wandering to, but another uncalled for personal attack on a member of my family and I'll tell you where it often goes to !
As you should know, it isn't my wont to go after you tooth and nail, so take this as a signal……………………………………………………..
BITE ME, YOU POS !
Oh and FYI……………I'm not angry with anyone in my family, haven't had a fight with any of them either, but I bet that YOU sure get into that situation quite often. :^)
Becker got the book!
Or John Bolton…
Oh, so there's the offending post…………………………………..GOOD!
First of all, most people don't belong to unions and many who do, have been forced to do so and don't want to be in them.
Yet another lie, mik ! There is absolutely NO benefit, none whatsoever, to people who don't belong to unions, that others do. Tell that to the people of NYC whose taxes go to pay many hundreds of teachers who can't be fired, who have committed sexual crimes against innocent kids, but who are paid to sit in what is called "runner rooms" and paid their full salaries and benefits. That's but one example; I can give you at least 50 others.
Not getting any from your wifey, mik? Say, what state do you live in, that allowed you to marry your mother, or is she just as old as your mother?
You really shouldn't cross the line and pick at someone else's family member, mik; especially when you are married to such a beast !
no argument there, pal…
Good Pun.
If he does the recess vote, he would still ultimately have to come to vote when Congress returns. I don't know how much power he'd have and how much damage he could do while temporarily appointed.
What are you 12 Harry? You are giving your fellow righties a bad rep. Simmer down.
This isn't necessarily over yet because a big potential problem remains, namely the real possibility of a recess appointment by Obama to this position. The question remains as to whether or not he will be appointed in such a manner given the decreasing support for Obama. So, I encourage everyone to continue trying to contact your Senators to let them know that this also is UNACCEPTABLE.
Please don't judge the rest of us by yourself, mik. Just bvecause YOU don't know many people in politics and/or don't ever bother to do any scut work to find out who they are, some of us do.
I doubt that you ever said that all GOP presidents deserved to have their nominees passed.
Oh…………………….and who says that this jerk is qualified? Just look at his pas and what he has said; all of it disqualifies him to hold this job position !
You are having a regular five car pile up here aren't you red. I seem to bring out the worst in you.
What are the unions going to do when everyone joins a union. There won't be anyone left to work for. Good luck you dummies. Unions cannot produce one thing without a company to work for. So why don't we just kill all the businesses. Like burning your hair to get rid of lice.
Balderdash. A union is nothing but an extortion racket, and their net effect on society is to *lower* the standard of living through increased prices and decreased productivity.
"Even if you don't belong to a union you benefit from the higher wages corporations are forced to pay to compete for labor" Even if that were true (which it isn't)- how do you justify public-employee unions?
Collective bargaining is a right… just like freedom of speech or the right to assemble.
I must have missed that phrase in the Bill of Rights.
I doubt your narrow view of the Constitution has much room for the study of case law.
Tee hee! If only you knew, ignorant little boy.
All I have to go on are your posts…. so use your words.
I agree that you probably need to seek sanity-good luck with your search.
Why are you whinging and whining, mik ?
Did you honest believe that you could poke me in the eye, over and over again, and I'd just take it?
This is what you've always wanted from me; it should have made you deliriously happy. Want some more of the same? Forgetaboutit! It must be punishment enough, for you, to be married to that wife of yours. ;^)
Chris Benoit,
Just for the record, you sniveling turd…the vote has been cast and I was right. Webb voted the Party line and his ass will be voted out in the next election cycle. Go screw your self you scumbag proglib. Your kind is through in politics in this country.
Go read your posts to me. Obviously, you have no idea what you write. ;^)
You might be right, if we were talking about your average politician.
However, if Obama is anything, he's arrogant and stubborn. He believes he's smarter than the American people and knows what's best for us. He's more concerned about his legacy now and I think he honestly believes that he can ram everything he wants through and history will prove him a genius after he's gone.
He's dangerous.
Great reporting. Thank you
What are you talking about? I've never insulted your family. You are the one spreading the nonsense.
Yes, he will appoint an individual who is a shill for SEIU to take away the rights of americans to contemplate union membership in the privacy of a secret ballot. The NLRB strikes mea as unconstitutional because of its unique "POWER" to rule with the force of law. In essence, to make law. I think the time has come to tie up the senate with a fillibuster of everything and tell the first traitor nad co-conspirators in congress, if he wants any legislation, he must give this union lakey up, and honestly negotionate with the republicans on EVERY piece of legislation, This isn't 1995 and he is definitely NOT CLINTON!!!
THAT and more is EXACTLY why Babs the TROLL and Benny the BOOB have got to GO!! I am so frustrated at Marylands lack of interest in getting rid of these people and save our State and Country.
Jim Rutledge is trying to replace Babs the Troll, and Hogan is trying to replace O'Maley, but Md is such a lazy Liberal State, I don't see it happening for conservatives.
Guest- to me its not the Marylanders that keep these trolls in office, its the Gov Unions that keep them in office.. Most of the gov. workers that now live in maryland are not from maryland and they all seam to vote for the dems as they are told to by the unions AFL CIO remember they work for these unions and not the People, their votes are always about self interest and not whats best for the country or the state of Maryland..
Federal Union workers should not be allowed to vote in ANY federal election, they should have given up that right when they joined the union and don't allow the people a voice in their contracts negotiations..
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