NLRB overreach, post-jobs speech edition

The National Labor Relations Board and its overreach was not brought up by President Obama during last night's jobs speech. My guess is that the agency's war on prosperity will continue.

Richard Trumka was Michelle Obama's guest at the speech.

From ABC News:

Hours before President Obama's joint address to Congress, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told ABC's "Top Line" that workers need something big from the President of the United States.

"They want to see that this president is willing to go to the mat for policies that are going to benefit them, that are going to help create jobs," said Trumka.

ABC News has learned that Obama's job plan will outline about $400 billion worth of stimulus — though he's unlikely to use the 's' word tonight. The plan is expected to contain a lot of tax cuts, but Trumka says he would like to see money injected into infrastructure, aid to state and local governments, and unemployment insurance.

Big Labor has a big place at Obama's jobs table, as this Workforce Fairness video tells us:'



Yesterday was a busy day for the unions. Goons stormed a workplace yesterday morning.

From AP:

Hundreds of Longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview early Thursday, overpowered and held security guards, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain that is the center of a labor dispute, said Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha.

Six guards were held hostage for a couple of hours after 500 or more Longshoremen broke down gates about 4:30 a.m. and smashed windows in the guard shack, he said.

No one was hurt, and nobody has been arrested. Most of the protesters returned to their union hall after cutting brake lines and spilling grain from car at the EGT terminal, Duscha said.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union believes it has the right to work at the facility, but the company has hired a contractor that's staffing a workforce of other union laborers.

Here's another Workforce Fairness Institute video.

Will America end up like Detroit? Scary.



And finally, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who will speak at a Tea Party Express rally this morning in Greenville. She told Fox News' Neil Cavuto that the NLRB suit against Boeing is wrong.



Related posts:

South Carolina day for the Tea Party Express

Report from the bloggers' call with Gov. Nikki Haley on the NLRB-Boeing case

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