Marathon Pundit: NLRB overreach: UAW payback edition

Monday, February 27, 2012

NLRB overreach: UAW payback edition

Three Rivers, Michigan

The United Auto Workers received preferential treatment from the White House--President Obama is the most pro-Big Labor president ever--in the GM and Chrysler bankruptcy. It's payback time, as the New York Times unintentionally explains. On a broader scale, Obama made three illegal recess appointments to the radicalized National Labor Relations Board last month to advance the demands of his union pals.

The United Automobile Workers union, a primary beneficiary of President Obama's decision to rescue domestic carmakers, is now trying to return the favor.

As Mitt Romney prepared to deliver an economic address here on Friday declaring Mr. Obama's three years in office a "failed presidency," hundreds of union members gathered on the top level of a parking deck as a freezing drizzle fell.

"Thank you, President Obama!" shouted the union's president, Bob King. He gripped a bullhorn as he exhorted the crowd, "Everyone!" They roared back, "Thank you, President Obama!"

Virginia is standing up to pro-union project labor agreements.

From the Washington Post:

On Thursday, the Virginia House and Senate also passed identical bills that would prohibit the use of mandatory project labor agreements for state-funded projects in Virginia.

The move comes just as the airports authority is preparing to request bids for contractors to build the second phase of the $6 billion Silver Line to Dulles International Airport and Loudoun…