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While Democrats have been working on circumventing the democratic process through inappropriate use of ‘reconciliation’, their partners in the labor movement are finding easier ways outside of congress.  Case in point: Craig Becker, Obama nominee to the National Labor Relations Board, currently associate general counsel for Service Employees International Union.  Becker opposes equal representation for employers and unions, when it comes to NLRB hearings.   In an article penned by Becker in a February 1993 Minnesota Law Review (77 Minn. L. Rev. 495), Becker argued:
  • “employers should neither have legal standing as parties to the representation proceeding nor have rights tantamount to those of candidates in union elections”
  • “barring employers from placing observers at the polls to challenge ballots”
  • “employers should not be allowed to refuse to bargain after a union election victory”
  • and in certain circumstances “employers should have no right to be heard in either a representation case or an unfair labor practices case”
His article is a manifesto of anti right-to-work sentiment, and marks Becker as an enemy of democracy.  There’s a reason union membership has been declining in every sector in this country except for the government   At least Becker hasn’t lost his sense of irony - his article is titled “Democracy in the Workplace.”

 

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