Marathon Pundit: Sowell rips radical NLRB

Thursday, May 03, 2012

Sowell rips radical NLRB

Thomas Sowell, a conservative like myself who is also a nature lover, expresses his indignation with the radicalized-National Labor Relations Board in Investors Business Daily.

He rips free-to-peek union card check and more.

Ever since the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, workers have been able to express their free choice of joining or not joining a union in a federally conducted election with a secret ballot.

As workers in the private sector have, over the years, increasingly voted to reject joining unions, union bosses have sought to replace secret ballots with signed documents — signed in the presence of union organizers and under the pressures, harassments or implicit threats of those organizers.

Now that the administration has appointed a majority of the National Labor Relations Board members, the NLRB has imposed new requirements that employers give union organizers with the names and home addresses of every employee. Nor do employees have a right to decline to have this personal information given out to union organizers, under NLRB rules.

In other words, union organizers will now have the legal right to pressure, harass or intimidate workers on the job or in their own homes, in order to get them to sign up with the union.