Marathon Pundit: NLRB overreach: Dem convention union favoritism edition

RNC balloons, 2008

Next year's Democratic National Convention will be held in Charlotte, it will be the first time a major political convention will be held in North Carolina.

During my 13-year career in the hospility industry, I would regularly receive business leads from the Chicago Convention and Visitors Bureau. On the upper right hand of them was an economic value estimate. Figured in to that total were projections on hotel rooms, restaurant meals, exhibit space rentals, and many other things.

As well as printed material and signage.

From Politico:

John Montieth, an executive at Heritage Printing and Graphics in Charlotte (who also complained to RedState's Ben Howe), said he spent, by his calculation, twenty hours a week for three months working to get convention-related signage jobs he figure could amount to as much as $250,000 in business. "I went through all the hoops, went to the DNC meetings, Charlotte meetings, shook hands, and kissed babies," he said.

Then, he said, one of the three top executives with the convention -- he wouldn't say which one -- told him he wouldn't be getting the work "unless you are a union printer. This is getting sent to union printers."

There's only one union printer in the area, he claimed, which wouldn't have the capacity to do large signs.

"This is all getting sent out of state," he said.

Scott Stone, a Republican candidate for Charlotte's mayor, says "Local workers are being denied opportunities that are going to out of state unions potentially, a charge that the Democratic incumbent denies.

From Red State: DNC Union favoritism forcing furloughs of Charlotte's non-nnion hotel workers?

From CNS News:

Americans frustrated with Washington's inaction in the face of massive unemployment were puzzled last week by President Barack Obama's public show of solidarity for that merry band of union-backed protesters called "Occupy Wall Street."

Okay. Let's put aside the fact that these protesters are apparently incapable of explaining what they're protesting against, let alone for. But, if President Obama REALLY wanted to show solidarity with frustrated Americans, he should have skipped the anti-Wall Street class warfare and taken his own Administration’s anti-jobs agency - the National Labor Relations Board – behind the woodshed.

By now many Americans have at least heard of the NLRB's attack on Boeing. The American airplane manufacturer sought to open a new plant in South Carolina - a plant that would employ over a thousand Americans - but the NLRB is endeavoring to stop it from doing so and it is pulling all its available legal and bureaucratic strings to stop it. Why? Because powerful union bosses oppose the new plant … and they have the ear of a majority of the Board.

There is an election tomorrow in Ohio. From FreedomWorks:

On Tuesday, Ohioans will go to the polls to vote on two of the most important ballot issues in state history. Issue 2 is a fight for fiscal solvency through common sense public sector pension reforms, while Issue 3 would outlaw Obamacare's individual mandate.

Both issues have enormous implications in Ohio and nationwide, and every YES vote is crucial to their passage. Every voter must remember to vote YES on Issues 2 & 3 next Tuesday, November 8th.

The consequences of failure for these issues would be nothing short of catastrophic for Ohio's struggling economy. Without the reforms made possible by Issue 2, school districts and local governments statewide are facing massive deficits that will inevitably result in higher taxes for residents.

From the New York Post:

All eyes should be on Ohio tomorrow as voters decide whether to roll back Gov. John Kasich's bold public-employee reforms. Passed this year, the much-needed course correction sharply curtailed collective-bargaining privileges for the state's 350,000 taxpayer-funded workers, giving the state -- facing an $8 billion shortfall -- a fighting chance to get its budgetary house in order.

It's another battle in a war under way all across the nation.