Marathon Pundit: NLRB overreach: DNC outsource edition

Tuesday, November 08, 2011

NLRB overreach: DNC outsource edition

More on the Dems outsourcing North Carolina jobs connected to next year's Democratic National Convention in Charlotte to their union pals.

First some NLRB news from MinnPost:

The political battle over labor unions that turned ugly in Wisconsin is moving on to Congress, and Minnesota Rep. John Kline has emerged as a central figure.

Within weeks, the U.S. House will vote on its second bill this fall that would limit the power of the National Labor Relations Board, a federal agency that administers laws regulating private-sector unionization.

The legislation is part of a two-punch effort by House Republicans to curb NLRB power.

The current bill, sponsored by Kline, would overturn a board ruling that union elections can take place as soon as 10 days after one is requested. An earlier one, approved by the House in September, would stop the NLRB from interfering with a company's planned relocation.

Now over to the DNC. From the Daily Caller:

Mayor Anthony Foxx, a Democrat with close ties to President Barack Obama, is taking political heat as several reports show he plans to replace local workers with out-of-state union workers during the Democratic National Convention next year.

Foxx's mayoral Republican challenger, Scott Stone, has been a vocal opponent of Foxx's purportedly anti-local business policies. Stone recently held a press conference asking Foxx to pledge he wouldn't give DNC jobs to out-of-state unions, but Foxx refused to commit.

After the press conference, RedState's Ben Howe discovered that the DNC was "discriminating against" a local large format sign printing company because it does not employ union labor. Since then, more reports of "discrimination" against non-union shops in Charlotte have surfaced.

The Ritz Carlton hotel in Charlotte, where the president is reportedly staying during the DNC next year, plans to temporarily lay off its employees, LaborUnionReport.com reports. LaborUnionReport.com spoke with a Ritz Carlton non-union employee who confirmed "they had been told they would be laid off during the convention."

From Red State: A Note To Charlotte's Workers: Get A Written Guarantee You Won't Be Outsourced To Unions.

From Hot Air: The Democratic National Convention: How The DNC Plans To Circumvent North Carolina's Right-To-Work Status.

There's an important vote in Ohio today. From Huffington Post:

Two recent polls in Ohio suggest an overwhelming defeat in the offing for Issue 2, the ballot measure that would ratify Republican Gov. John Kasich's controversial limits on collective bargaining by state public employees. But past misfires in polling on statewide referendums provide good reason for caution until all votes are counted on Tuesday night.

An automated, recorded-voice telephone survey conducted over the weekend by the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling (PPP) found voter sentiment trending against Issue 2, by a margin of 59 to 36 percent.

A live interview poll conducted a week earlier by Quinnipiac University found a similar result: By a 56 to 33 percent margin, Ohio's registered voters said they oppose limiting collective bargaining for public employees, as Kasich's Senate Bill 5 does.

Despite the apparent consistency of these results, the pro-union group Progress Ohio put out a memo in late October bluntly warning that polling on "complicated issues" like Ohio's Issue 2 "is unreliable" and that the "blowout" predicted in the PPP and Quinnipiac polls is based "on flawed public opinion samples."