On Capitol Hill, New Jersey Congressman Rush Holt is a prominent Big Labor enabler: He's cosponsored the notorious "card check" forced unionism bill, taken tens of thousands of dollars from union bosses who use their forced-dues powers to funnel money into politics, and generally opposed expanding workplace freedom at every turn. His latest stunt? A heavy-handed attempt to block a decertification election that would have thrown an unwanted union out of a New Jersey workplace.
Recently, Holt wrote a letter (pdf) urging the NLRB to block a decertification election that would have removed Teamster bosses from the Durham School Bus offices in Middletown, New Jersey. Holt claims that the company's unfair labor practices tainted the election, but even if his assertion were true, workers attempting to eject unwelcome union bosses shouldn't be punished for management's mistakes. Moreover, Big Labor operatives frequently resort to frivolous legal challenges to prevent employees from getting rid of unions.
Although the election was held as scheduled and Teamster officials ultimately held on to their forced-dues privileges, Holt's letter demonstrates Big Labor's staggering political influence. Union bosses will stop at nothing to push more workers into their forced-dues paying ranks. Getting a sitting Congressman to intervene in what was supposed to be an even-handed union decertification election is just the latest example of their political pull. After all, they've done it before, and they'll surely do it again.
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I was the one who filed the
I was the one who filed the petition to decertify the union. The NLRB impounded the ballots until the "investigation" was complete. The vote took place on May 20th, and I still have heard nothing. Even if the union wins, we the employees should have the right to know how the vote went.
WTF?
Given that the National Right to Work Committee runs on bald faced lies, particularly about the NLRB, your chicken-little-like implications that something is askew and you are being deprived of rights is predictable.
The Board "impounded the ballots." Woooo, scarey!!!!!! What would you have them do? Throw them away? Hand them to people on the street? Use them for scratch paper? Of course they impound them. The sanctity of the ballot box and the secrecy of ballots is central to Board election processes. The Board can't give a count until it handles all objections and challenges. For these reasons, it always keeps the ballots secure. If the Board agent fails to keep the ballots secure, the election is overturned and redone.
May 20? Wooooo, scarey! Do you expect instant results? That wasn't even a month ago. Board elections results typically take a few weeks. Or longer. For better or worse, the Board works slow. In part because it is underfunded, the GOP wants the Board not to work efficiently, and employers usually benefit from slow downs of Board processes.
I realize it is cute and trendy on the right to slander the NLRB with baseless lies but neither the securing of the ballots or the time that has passed are suspicious or unusual.
Get in touch with reality, get your head out of your ideological fog.