{"id":3370,"date":"2011-08-17T14:06:54","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T18:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3370"},"modified":"2011-08-17T14:06:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T18:06:54","slug":"lack-of-transparency-at-the-national-labor-relations-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3370","title":{"rendered":"Lack Of Transparency At The National Labor Relations Board"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Daily Caller<\/a>\u00a0reported on recent activity at the National Labor Relations Board NLRB) in regard to unionizing companies. Current law requires that union elections be held within six weeks of the time that\u00a0organizers meet the petition\u00a0requirements for an election. The NLRB is moving to shorten that time to\u00a07\u201310 days.<\/p>\n

The article points out:<\/p>\n

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Another red flag that (former NLRB board member Peter)\u00a0Schaumber notices with the Board\u2019s handling of its \u201cquickie election\u201d proposal is the lack of transparency in the NLRB\u2019s deliberations. Schaumber says it appears as though the Board\u2019s members evaded the Sunshine Act, either\u00a0by meeting only two at a time or by using staffers to relay information among themselves.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The unions have a reason for wanting to change this rule quickly. Right now the NLRB is totally controlled by pro-labor forces, after 2012, that may not be the case. The other reason for the urgency is the state of union pensions. As previously reported at rightwinggranny<\/a>:<\/p>\n

One of the reasons the unions are so desperate to grow membership is that their pension funds are unfunded.\u00a0 I ran an article at rightwinggranny<\/a> in April of 2010 based on a Big Government article which stated:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“The worst part of the Obama executive order is the real reason for it.\u00a0 According to a September, <\/strong><\/em>2009 report<\/em><\/span><\/a> by Moody’s Investor Services, construction union pensions in 2008 were just 54% funded.\u00a0 Just like Social Security, the promised union pensions were too fat.\u00a0 They were built on the similar demographic flaw of social security.\u00a0 The system would pay full benefits to the earliest retirees, but would only be able to continue to do that if the ratio of workers to retirees is sustainable.\u00a0 So what does it mean when the ratio fails?\u00a0 How do you restore the footing on a plan so underfunded when the ration of worker to retiree continues to get worse?”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The crunch point of this ponzi scheme is about to be reached.\u00a0 That is why the unions are desperately trying to change to rules of unionization–to save face on their pension funds.\u00a0 If more members do not join quickly, the whole pension scheme will collapse.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Workers need more than ten days to decide if they want to join a union. They need a chance to hear both sides of the story. The recent action of the NLRB does nothing to improve the process.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Today’s Daily Caller\u00a0reported on recent activity at the National Labor Relations Board NLRB) in regard to unionizing companies. Current law requires that union elections be held within six weeks of the time that\u00a0organizers meet the petition\u00a0requirements for an election. The … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,65,62,64,63],"class_list":["post-3370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-national-labor-relations-board","tag-sunshine-act","tag-trade-union","tag-union-elections","tag-union-pensions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3371,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions\/3371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}