The National Relations Board (NLRB), now completely filled with five appointees, is wasting no time rolling out its Big Labor-friendly agenda. Board Chair Mark Pearce is moving forward with a series of regulations that will make it much easier for union bosses to win elections in the workplace.
One controversial proposal mandates businesses surrender employee phone and email contact information to campaigning union heads.
Said Pearce: “We keep our eye on the prize. Our goal is to create a set of rules that eliminate a lot of waste of time, energy and money for the taxpayers.”
The prize, it seems, is to ensure Big Labor is getting the agenda it wants by eliminating fairness in the workplace. Pearce appears unfazed by strong objections from the business community to these new rules, and suggests the NLRB will push them through irrespective of the opposition and due process.
When asked about President Obama’s unprecedented appointment of NLRB nominees while the Senate was out of recess, Pearce was glib. “We presume the constitutionality of the president’s appointments and we go forward based on that understanding.”
Despite that, the Workforce Fairness Institute continues moving forward with its current online petition on the White House’s “We the People” website demanding the President rescind his recess appointments to the NLRB immediately.