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Employee Forced Choice Act Main Objective of NLRB Nominee
- Desperate Labor Bosses using Craig Becker as a backdoor tactic to force unionization on small businesses
- Harry Reid and Senate Leaders willing to jam through nominees behind closed doors and silence dissenting voices
- The Employee Force Choice Act would allow Labor Bosses to eliminate the secret ballot and pressure workers into signing cards in favor of workplace unionization
- Under EFCA, government arbitrators would enter your workplace and mandate contracts on employers and employees alike
- EFCA would cause 600,000 jobs to be lost in the first year in effect, and more job losses would follow
- This is a selfish power grab by Big Labor Bosses who are less concerned about job losses than they are in increased union membership
- Sneaking through Craig Becker, the SEIU crony ready to do their bidding- is a chance to accomplish the damaging components of EFCA administratively instead of debated out in the open on the Senate floor
- Harry Reid and the Senate Leadership gave their word that important votes would not occur until Senator Elect Scott Brown of Massachusetts was seated- and quickly broke their promise by having a hearing and vote on Big Labor’s hand picked nominees
WHO IS CRAIG BECKER?
- Becker serves as Associate General Counsel to both the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
- Becker has written that, “employers should be stripped of any legally cognizable interest in their employees’ election of representatives.” Simply stated, Becker believes small businesses should have no say whatsoever over their own future, while union bosses have complete control.
- In Craig Becker’s perfect world, every worker in America would be in a union, whether they choose to be there or not.
- Becker is a nominee for one of the three vacancies on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). According to its Web site, the NLRB is an “independent federal agency created by Congress in 1935 to administer the National Labor Relations Act, the primary law governing relations between unions and employers in the private sector.”
- As a member of the board, Becker would have significant authority to enact the SEIU and AFL-CIO’s agenda by fiat meaning the executive branch would do via administrative action what they have been unable to get enacted through elected representatives in the legislature who are directly accountable to voters.
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“President Obama has picked a like-minded lawyer culled from the ranks of the Teamsters to chair the NLRB, and another Obama NLRB pick, Craig Becker, is a labor radical who wrote that ‘federal policy should not acknowledge employees’ “choice to remain unrepresented.”’” (Editorial, “Card-Check Is A Trojan Horse <http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=M2JhMjAzNjM0ZGZiNzY1ZDQ1ZTAxM2QwMGQ2MmMxMTE=> ,” National Review, 7/21/09)
“So it should come as no surprise that several high-profile Obama nominees to key positions in the Department of Labor and National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) are longtime Big Labor lobbyists and compulsory unionism hard-liners. But Craig Becker, Mr. Obama’s latest nominee to the NLRB – the quasi-judicial agency that administers federal labor law – is a radical, even by Big Labor’s standards. With just some of the NLRB’s most important functions including overseeing secret ballot elections and resolving unfair labor practices committed by union organizers, it’s easy to see why a militant NLRB is one of Big Labor’s most treacherous accomplices in increasing its radical forced-dues power.” (Mark Mix, “A Radical By The Board <http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/21/a-radical-by-the-board/> ...,” The Washington Times, 10/21/09)
“In fact, as a former AFL-CIO and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) lawyer, Mr. Becker is solely responsible for forcing tens of thousands of workers under union boss control. In one case, reports from a Los Angeles SEIU local union revealed that almost 63,000 people rejected membership in the union in 2007, but thanks to Mr. Becker, were still forced to pay dues.” (Mark Mix, “A Radical By The Board <http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/21/a-radical-by-the-board/> ...,” The Washington Times, 10/21/09)
“And Mr. Becker’s own words explain why. He was even so bold as to say unions were ‘formed to escape the evils of individualism and individual competition ... their actions necessarily involve coercion’” (Mark Mix, “A Radical By The Board <http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/21/a-radical-by-the-board/> ...,” The Washington Times, 10/21/09)
“For example, Becker has written that ‘employers should be stripped of any legal cognizable interest in their employees’ election of representatives.’ This radical view would even extend to prohibiting employers from alerting the NLRB to illegal campaign conduct. In the same law review article quoted above, Becker wrote that ‘employers should have no right to raise questions concerning voter eligibility or campaign conduct.’ Taking such views one step further, Becker believes that employers shouldn’t even be heard when it comes to most NLRB cases, writing: ‘employers should have no right to be heard in either a representation case or an unfair labor practices case.’” (Glenn Spencer, “Two Tracks For EFCA In 2010 <http://www.metrocorpcounsel.com/current.php?artType=view&artMonth=December&artYear=2009&EntryNo=10396> ,” The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, 12/1/09)
