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This is mostly about posturing and placating. Democrats still lack the votes needed to pass big labor’s agenda, but unelected lawyers occupying powerful administrative positions can still do great damage.
While addressing the executive council of the AFL-CIO at the Washington Convention Center in D.C. earlier this month, President Obama told labor leaders that he would push congress to pass the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), which includes the anti- secret ballot “card check” provision.
In the 2008 election cycle, labor union political action committees (PACs) donated $66 million to congressional candidates with 92 percent of those funds going to Democrats. Obama knows he’ll need this key constituency out in full force to help negate the expected mid-term election losses in the House and Senate.
“We are going to keep on fighting to pass the Employee Free Choice Act,” Obama declared even as he acknowledged that labor faces an uphill fight. Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas and other moderate Democrats have expressed opposition. However, the president has appointed left-leaning lawyers to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) who are now positioned to secure major policy changes without congressional approval.
Glenn Spencer, executive director of the Workforce Freedom Initiative at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, issued the following statement in response to Obama’s speech.
“We welcome the President’s call to rebuild our economy, but taking away the private ballot and imposing government-dictated union contracts on employers won’t help. Misguided bills like Card Check, overbearing regulations from the Department of Labor, and a slanted NLRB will only discourage America’s job creators from putting people back to work.”
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Veleta Walker| 8.12.10 @ 12:50PM
How much are the unions paying the president to over ride the Congress approval on "The Employee Free Choice Act. The president should stay in Washington and quit helping the Democrats running for office. He is using our money to help them get in office. The president should not be allowed to do this. Besides look at the money he would save, by not flying that air bus. This president is being paid money to ruin our country.
Bonnie Perkiser| 8.12.10 @ 1:29PM
Obama is hell bent on ruining this country. I am still curious about his involvemnet in the Illinois senate race that former Governor Blago is being tried for. I think Blago has accepted a deal from Obama to keep his name out of it.
mike| 8.12.10 @ 5:03PM
Everyone knows what Obama stands for except the media. He is and will continue to be a Marxist dictator! You may have seen your last free election.
Nate| 8.12.10 @ 5:48PM
Mike is right.
Obama is a Marxist dictator.
But Mike doesn't go far enough.
Not only is Obama a Marxist dictator. But he's also a fascist dictator!
And he's an illegal alien! And he's a Muslim! And he's a terrorist! And he's a Satanist! And he's a child molester.
Obama is known to have robbed several liquor stores in the Chicago area when he was a teenager, and he shot ten people, and he's a crack dealer, and a pimp, and a thug, and a traitor, and an atheist! That's right. He's a Muslim, Satanist, atheist!
You may have seen your last free election!!!!
Run of the hills!
Be afraid!
If your neighbor calls you a whining, paranoid douche bag, report him to the FBI!!!!!
cautiousOne| 8.13.10 @ 12:07AM
calm down nate - your exposing yourself....
Larry| 8.13.10 @ 1:17AM
While I don't think Obama will succeed in getting his union buddies the card check legislation right now, we must make sure the Democrats lose their Congressional majority in November. If they don't, you'll see this again. If it passes, you will see economic chaos the likes of which we haven't seen in a long time. You will also see a "capital strike" among businesses, who will either close their doors or will not invest their money in anything while Big Labor runs amuck.
Ole Sarge| 8.13.10 @ 4:26PM
Simply reinterpret the laws/regs. BATF has been using this strategy for years, works well for them, destroys lives of gun related employees and gun owners at ever opportunity.
Gersheps| 8.15.10 @ 11:36PM
If you haven't read "Atlas Shrugged" bu Ayn Rand, you might want to. It outlines precisely the Scenario you are talking about, and the Consequences. She wrote this Novel in 1957
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Oldefarte| 8.13.10 @ 11:41AM
This illustrates two major problems that define Democrats as the radically-extremists that they are: LAWYERS AND LABOR UNIONS. Combined, they're like gasoline and matches!!!!!!
Tim| 8.13.10 @ 12:17PM
This whole mess reminds me of the age old saying.
Pigs get rich and Hogs get slaughtered!
The Dems and their close political friends like Lawyers and Union Leaders should have been happy with just being Pigs!
Now they have the possibility that the American peasants are going to turn upside down all of their cozy corrupt lifestyles and forever make it much harder to be a political crook living off the sweat of the peasants.
The National Right To Work Committee could not succeed but the Dems themselves have made it possible for even the most naive person to figure out the inside scam.
Talk about being stupid!
Brian| 8.13.10 @ 5:10PM
Shush Nate
You lay way too much on us all at once. Give us the lowdown in smaller doses so that we can digest it slowly and with greater anticipation of new expose' to come.
I did check out every liquor store in Chicago though and sure enough you were right-on about that.
So your credibility is undeniable.
You threw me though on "run of the hills".