Tuesday NLRB overreach roundup

Here is the latest colletion of stories about the overreach of the NLRB.

From the Greenville News:

U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy said he plans to question National Labor Relations Board officials about their complaint against The Boeing Co. during an upcoming oversight hearing in South Carolina that he helped arrange.

Gowdy said fellow Republican Rep. Darrell Issa of California, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, agreed to his request for a field hearing in South Carolina on NLRB policy.

It will take place in June, probably in Charleston, the freshman congressman for Greenville/Spartanburg said Monday while at a jobs announcement for a Greenville company that hopes to do business with Boeing.

The NLRB in April accused Boeing of violating federal labor law in deciding to build a non-union facility in North Charleston to make its 787 Dreamliner.

The Daily Caller:

A new report from South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint’s office shows that right-to-work states, or states which prohibit forced unionization and dues payments, are economically outperforming states without the worker protection.

According to DeMint's study, right-to-work states enjoy more new residents, more new businesses, more new jobs, and faster income growth.

The study shows that more Americans are moving to right-to-work states, causing states that force unionization to lose seats in Congress.

From 2000-2010, forced-union states lost 9 seats while right-to-work states gained 9. The increase in population and new businesses (right-to-work states had 46 percent more private business growth) has also resulted in a greater increase in employment and income in right-to-work states.

"From 1993-2009, private sector employment increased 37.9% in RTW [right-to-work] states (15.8 million jobs) compared to 19.6% (14.5 million jobs) in forced-unionism states," the report reads. "Individual income in RTW states is growing at a faster rate than forced-unionism states. From 1993-2010 real per capita personal income grew 39.5% in RTW states compared to 35.7% in forced-unionism states."

The Daily Caller, again:

It turns out controversial National Labor Relations Board (NRLB) member Craig Becker's pro-union advocacy dates back to an important moment that would redefine labor relations in this nation.

On August 3, 1981, President Ronald Reagan, who had been president of the Screen Actors Guild, warned members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) that they were "in violation of the law and if they do not report for work within 48 hours they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated."

Ultimately, 11,359 striking air traffic controllers were fired.

In 1984, Becker was one of the advising counsel on an appeal defending the PATCO workers, essentially arguing they should not have been fired because they were confused about the grace period.

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