President Obama's radicalized NLRB wants businesses to release informatnion in regards to their push for quickie union elections.
Obama Labor Board Seeks To Require Employers To Hand Over Employee Contact Information To Big Labor Bosses:
The proposed rule would require employers to turn over to union officials significant private information about its employees at various stages of the representation case process. For example, prior to the pre-election hearing, employers would be forced to provide the Board and union officials with a preliminary employee voter list, which would include names, work locations, shifts, and classifications. Upon receiving the direction of election, employers will then only have two days in which to assemble, create and submit a final voter eligibility list (i.e., Excelsior list) which would include the previous information, along with telephone numbers and, where available, e-mail addresses of employees. The immediate demand for the Excelsior list will place an unnecessary burden on employers, especially since the Board admits to its own sluggish practices in transmitting Excelsior lists to the parties. This requirement would also likely result in the filing of inaccurate and untimely lists, which will do nothing to advance the purpose of the list, which is to inform the employee electorate to ensure a fair and free voting process. However, because the Board has determined that the failure to provided a timely voter eligibility list can, in certain circumstances, invalidate the results of an election, this new mandate would likely be used by big labor to attempt to overturn undesirable election results. ("NLRB Pushes Quickie Elections," U.S. Chamber Of Commerce, accessed 10/12/11)
But what about getting basic information from
public servants, such as, email addresses?
Obama Department Of Homeland Security "Won't Release Contact Info For Public Affairs Officers
"Those of you who live outside the Beltway probably aren't terribly familiar with Federal Times. It's a weekly newspaper that covers the happenings at federal agencies directed mostly at an audience of federal employees and federal managers. Well, it seems that a reporter at Federal Times, Andrew Medici, was having some trouble reaching various spokespersons at the Department of Homeland Security. Eventually, he got so frustrated with trying to reach people he had to file a Freedom of Information Act request … Yes, that's right. The Department of Homeland Security won't give out the work emails and phone numbers of the federal employees who's specific job is answering questions from the press and the public." (Mark Hemingway, "Most Transparent Administration Ever Won't Release Contact Info for Public Affairs Officers," The Weekly Standard, 10/11/11)
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