{"id":25752,"date":"2011-03-17T10:33:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T16:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=25752"},"modified":"2012-02-20T22:40:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T05:40:34","slug":"bureaucrats-to-union-thugs-come-out-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=25752","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Bureaucrats to union thugs: Come out fighting&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\" http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/editorials\/2011\/03\/bureaucrats-union-thugs-come-out-fighting#ixzz1GsJBAsco\">Washington Examiner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Prior to its most recent decision [ruling on a 2008 workplace representation election at MasTec DirecTV that was won by the Communications Workers of America on a 14-12 vote], the NLRB has historically set aside elections in which multiple verbal threats were made by either side, including most recently in a 2007 case in which a UAW effort to organize a PPG shop was overturned following a rash of verbal threats of physical assault by pro-union employees against anti-union employees. But the NLRB last Friday found the same sort of verbal threats insufficient to set aside the election because it failed to meet one of these five criteria: &#8220;(1) the nature of the threat itself; (2) whether it encompassed the entire unit; (3) the extent of dissemination; (4) whether the person making the threat was capable of carrying it out, and whether it is likely that employees acted in fear of that capability; and (5) whether the threat was made or revived at or near the time of the election.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other words, what constitutes a threat of violence in the age of Obama is now to be determined by the application of a complicated set of bureaucratic criteria, which inevitably will require massive administrative litigation before a decision is rendered. Which is another way of inviting union thugs to have at it without fear of consequences anytime soon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The New Civility, 46.<\/p>\n<p>All the more reason to get to work on that national Right to Work legislation.  Which, surprisingly, is being sponsored not by the self-proclaimed champions of the working man, but rather by the &#8220;extreme right wing&#8221; of the GOP. You know, representatives to those crazed, bug-eyed flyover hicks who actually think the Constitution needs be heeded.<\/p>\n<p>Shocking, isn&#8217;t it?  I mean, who knew?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Examiner: Prior to its most recent decision [ruling on a 2008 workplace representation election at MasTec DirecTV that was won by the Communications Workers of America on a 14-12 vote], the NLRB has historically set aside elections in which multiple verbal threats were made by either side, including most recently in a 2007 case in which a UAW effort to organize a PPG shop was overturned following a rash<\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"btnmore\" href=\"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=25752\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":9196393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37499,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25752\/revisions\/37499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}