Rick Manning, ALG:
While Donald Trump has been running around Hawaii looking for Obama’s birth certificate, Obama’s unconfirmed appointee to the NLRB has been having his way in launching an official federal government jihad in support of Obama’s big labor supporters, who don’t care where he was born.
The brains behind the NLRB attack on the American way of life, is a formerly obscure lawyer named Craig Becker. Becker’s views are so extreme when it comes to management/labor relations, that his nomination was derailed by a bi-partisan vote in the Senate when it was controlled by 59 Democrats.
In response, President Obama, at the urging of the AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka, used a backdoor mechanism to get Becker onto the NLRB called a recess appointment, which allows him to serve for a defined period of time without Senate confirmation.
Why was Becker so important that Obama was willing to risk the ire of the Senate to put him in place?
Craig Becker was a top lawyer at both the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and their rival the AFL-CIO simultaneously.
Craig Becker was the intellectual architect behind Big Labor’s plan to coerce workers into membership against their will through denying them the right to a secret ballot election.
This rejected Obama nominee even went so far as to write in the 1998 Fall/Winter edition of the New Labor Forum, “At first blush is might seem fair to give workers the choice to remain unrepresented. But, in providing workers this US labor grants employers a powerful incentive.”
Is it any wonder that this unelected, unconfirmed Obama appointee has in the course of one week led an obscure government agency to put the force of the US government against Boeing Corporation creating American jobs in a state where those jobs are unlikely to become members of a labor union, and against the citizens of states who are attempting to protect their rights to a secret ballot.
Personnel is policy, and Craig Becker proves that a determined virtually anonymous zealot can do incalculable damage to the nation’s economy.
What is scary is that in this Administration, Craig Becker is not the outlier, but instead is the norm.
Now now. I’m sure he has the country’s best interests at heart.
But speaking of motives, there’s this, which might help put Obama in perspective, for those still enamored with the crease in his pants.
The dirty truth about the American academy is that, in the Humanities and elsewhere, it is positively overrun with Marxist theorizing, most of which is presented positively. Even later critical iterations, which have learned to avoid stating their theoretical connections to Marxism, have so internalized its assumptions that, for all intents and purposes, the difference is only in the label and method.
It’s a load of rot, the modern academy. And it is largely incestuous and self-protecting.
But it does explain the trajectory of what I’m coming to see as a faculty lounge-presidency that has been disastrously mapped onto real world political machinations.
(thanks to geoffB for the Althouse link)
Trumka and his NLRB puppets:
Nice little state youse gots here. It’d be a shame if somethin’ was ta happen to it…
Between card check and South Carolina, it is pretty clear that Becker and the NLRB despise our economy.
Another one of Obama’s good men…
Campaign time. No time for that. Gotta use my gift, Harry. We’ll take care of all of these serious problems in term 2. Oprah time!
Sometimes I think we put the Irken Empire in the White House.
Zim: I put the fires out.
Tallest: You made them worse!
Zim: Worse? …or better?
Trying to get some understanding of what “Critical Legal Studies” is and where it came from I came across one of its founders, Duncan Kennedy, Carter Professor at Harvard Law School and a piece he wrote for the Harvard Crimson just after Obama took office. It is a a piece that overflows with the main publicly expoused “tell” of the progressive left, hatred of Israel. There is also a history of that country which is from an alternate reality that makes the hatred justified. Our President seems to have drunk of the same waters of the alt-real.
The Congress needs to push back hard by defunding NLRB, or at least threatening to.
Of course it is. ‘From each according to ability, to each according to need’ always plays well among those with few abilities and great needs which, when you think about it, pretty much defines the Humanities. Teaching people marketable skills is hard. Giving them an enormous sense of entitlement is so easy any fool can do it.
I’ve been astonished at the kids straight out of one of the “studies” programs at college who apply for technical writing jobs fully expecting to get a management position with a corner office, a company car, and an expense account. Never mind that their stream of consciousness resume revealed that they can’t spell, string words together to make sentences, or have any idea what a paragraph is. If they’ve been searching for work for any length of time they tend to be bitter and angry, feeling cheated out of their rightful due. And, of course, they tend to gravitate to government employment where credentials count for more than ability, and they join unions, where collective bargaining can insure their advancement where ability never would.