Republicans Using "Baseball Bat" To Attack Workers Rights

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.workinglife.org/blogs/view_post.php?content_id=15279

Apparently, in the alternate universe Republicans inhabit, socialism is on the march and the attack against the "free market" is unrelenting. Where? At the National Labor Relations Board, of course. The truth is--shocking, I know--quite different, and it speaks volumes about the playing field for workers in the real world.

The NLRB has been under relentless, broad attack from the Republican Party. What terrible things has the NLRB done in recent times?

Well, it issued rules that would speed up elections. Ain't that an awful thing? Rather than hold an election months and, sometimes, years after workers petition for that right, the NLRB put out rules that were “intended to reduce unnecessary litigation, streamline pre- and postelection procedures and facilitate the use of electronic communications and document filing.”

But, the party, and its enablers at the Chamber of Commerce, that rails endlessly about "endless" litigation by trial lawyers went ape-shit about a fairly mundane proposal. “This is another, not-so-cleverly-disguised effort to restrict the ability of employers to express their views during an election campaign, to inform employees of the pros and cons of unionization,” said Randel K. Johnson, the chamber’s senior vice president for labor matters.

More at the link --

[yourout]

1. More like a meat clever.

Carving them up one hack at a time.