Obama Regime Continues to do the Unions Bidding: Suing Arizona, South Dakota Over Secret Ballot Laws…
Because not being intimidated into unionizing is a bad thing.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Labor Relations Board says it will move ahead with lawsuits seeking to invalidate state constitutional amendments in Arizona and South Dakota that require workers to hold secret ballot elections before a company can be unionized.
The move comes after months of negotiations that failed to reach a settlement with attorneys general for the two states, according to an April 22 letter from the agency’s acting general counsel, Lafe Solomon.
It’s the latest in a series of high-profile steps the agency has taken to defend union rights since gaining a Democratic majority last year for the first time in nearly a decade. And it comes as Republican state legislators are enacting anti-union laws in many states as budget-cutting efforts.
Last week, the NRLB filed a controversial lawsuit that accuses Boeing Co. of putting one of its assembly lines for the new 787 in South Carolina — a right to work state — to retaliate against union workers in Washington state who went on strike in 2008.
Solomon told state officials he has directed staff to file the lawsuits against Arizona and South Dakota “shortly.” He claims the amendments conflict with current federal law that gives employers the option to recognize a union if a majority of workers simply sign cards, a process known as “card check.”
Solomon also claims the state amendments are pre-empted by the supremacy clause of the Constitution. That clause says federal law prevails if there is a conflict between state and federal law.
But Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne said the NLRB had no legal basis to file a lawsuit.
“There’s no statute that says people can’t have secret ballot elections, so there’s no preemption,” Horne said.
Posted by ZIP on Tuesday, April 26, 2011, at 1:22 pm | 
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Amazing set of pre-election payback balls.
it’s amazing to me what this man gets away with on a daily basis.
Yea where he’s born isnt important is it Jan????
The first two years he had congress, so he worked with them. Now that he’s lost congress, he’s just going to go dictator on our ass. We need an “American Spring” revolt in this country.
Did he threaten her with this lawsuit to back off the birther issue?
Then once she backed down…he went ahead with it anyway…
and now its too late…she can’t bring up the birther issue…
@Rob
if she did then I got to wonder why she’d believe that POS would keep his promise. From the things McCain said afterwards I think he had a role in it and should have his gobbler of a neck wrung if he acted like a thug against his own state.
When all else fails abuse the legal system. The refuge of thugs with law degrees.
moonbats are using the same defense for 0bamascare by cloaking their argument under the supremacy clause of the Constitution.
They want open ballots so that they can abuse the people that voted against it. Why else would it matter if the voting was secret or not!
Along with the EPA, time to defund NLRB. This should really be a state issue anyway. Only when you’ve exhausted all efforts to resolve a problem with an employer should you need a national agency – by then, it’s time to sue and let a jury make the decision. They are useless and need to go.
” current federal law that gives employers the option to recognize a union if a majority of workers simply sign cards”
1. Does this mean the employers have the option to not recognize the union if a majority sign cards?
2. If a majority votes by secret ballot does the eployer have options, or must he abide by the vote, either for or against?
With all the purple ties and backgrounds , can we call Obama a purple people eater ?.
“They want open ballots so that they can abuse the people that voted against it. Why else would it matter if the voting was secret or not!”
Because the businesses being unionized tend to cheat the system rampantly. Seriously, you have to ask?