Craig Becker. Hmmm. The name seems innocuous enough.
While Congress went home for recess, Obama did yet another end run around Congress and appointed Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board, the organization that oversees union disputes and interprets America's labor law. Mr. Becker, on Friday, went from being the associate general counsel for the Service International Employees Union (SEIU) to being one of five members of the NLRB on Saturday.
Can you say, 'conflict of interest?'
What are Mr.Becker's thoughts on business and unions?
1. Employers should not be involved in any union elections. In other words, the unions can say whatever they want and the employers should sit down and shut up. Never mind that they're the ones providing the jobs.
2. Employers should be barred from all NLRB elections hearings and challenges. Never mind that they're the ones providing the jobs.
3. Traditional democratic rules should not apply in union elections. Never mind that the employers provide the jobs.
If you look at Becker's writings going back to 1998 and 2005, he says that workers should have no choice either by secret election or by card check about whether or not they will belong to a union.
A worker's choice, to Mr. Becker is not whether to join a union, but which union to join.
Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work, said this is the first time an acting union lawyer has gone straight from a union to the NLRB.
Becker doesn't believe anyone in America has a right to work unless they belong to a union. There are currently twelve cases pending at the NLRB involving The National Right to Work and Craig Becker and SEIU.
Mr. Becker objects to the National Right to Work organization because they offer a service to employees who object to compulsory union membership.
Becker and the chairman of the NLRB have made the claim that they can do card check without any statutory authority.
Card check basically means the right for employees to be allowed a secret ballot regarding whether or not they want to be unionized will be stripped from them. In other words, everyone will know how they voted and the unions will know who they are and where they live and, given their history in this country, will be free to bully and intimidate and threaten if anyone dares to vote no. And if anyone is thinking about voting 'no', they understand what the potential consequences could be for them and their families.
Congress didn't have the mandate to enforce the open ballot versus the secret ballot, but the problem now is a possible arbitration provision which organized labor sees as it's real prize in this term of Congress and with Comrade Obama at the helm.
So now we have Craig Becker, who, if his photograph is accurate, gives Obama a real run for the money when it comes to seeing who can stick his chin highest in the air. He is anti capitalist, anti-American, pro- union and, surprise, yet another radical that Obama had to sneak into position in the dead of the night after Congress went into recess and the reporters, such as they are, had gone for the weekend.
What a transparent guy this Obama is. What a headliner for hope and change.
I've lost count of the special interests our president is in in bed with. Any room left for Michelle in there?
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