Thursday, November 10, 2011

NLRB Exposed Attacking Boeing and Bragging



Rick Perry suggested that three agencies be eliminated from government last night. Once he remembered which ones they were the fire had gone out and the lights had dimmed on his candidacy once again. He needed a good showing in this debate and it seems he failed to impress.

'Let me tell you, it’s three agencies that are gone when I get there. Commerce, Education, and the um, what’s the third one there?

'Commerce, education and eh, eh...'
Rival Mitt Romney tried to help, suggesting, 'EPA?'

That wasn’t it, said Perry, although he seemed unsure.

Ron Paul, ever ready to cut big government, put up five fingers and said the governor should eliminate five agencies.



While the other eight candidates - and the millions watching on live TV - continued to squirm, CNBC moderator John Harwood offered Perry the opportunity to redeem himself.

It would have been kinder to move on as the bumbling governor dealt the death blow to his faltering campaign.
'The third agency I would do away with…the…ahh…Education…ahh…Commerce, and, let’s see,' he added, looking down at his podium, 'I can’t, the third one. I can’t. Sorry. Oops.'

Read more: Daily Mail

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Now to the REAL news...

I only superimposed the story above in order to illustrate this point...

WE MUST ELIMINATE THE BUREAUCRATIC ARM OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IN ORDER TO REGAIN CONTROL OF THIS NATION!

THE NLRB / SOCIALIST UNION COALITION IS THE STICK IN THE ARM OF THIS OBAMA RUN THUGOCRACY.

HERE IS A GOOD PLACE TO START LOPPING OFF SOME HEADS!
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Internal emails ridicule South Carolina Republican Senator James DeMint as “Sen. Dement.”

NLRB General Counsel: “We screwed up the [US] economy and now we can tackle [E]urope.”



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Washington, DC -- November 9, 2011

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has received documents from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) concerning the NLRB’s decision to file a lawsuit against Seattle-based Boeing for opening a $750 million non-union assembly plant in North Charleston, South Carolina, to manufacture its Dreamliner plane (Judicial Watch v. National Labor Relations Board (No. 11-1470)).

The documents, obtained pursuant to Judicial Watch’s original July 14, 2011, Freedom of Information Act request and subsequent lawsuit, include internal correspondence amongst NLRB attorneys discussing the Boeing lawsuit. Among the highlights:


  • On April 22, 2011, Acting NLRB General Counsel Lafe Solomon sent an email to Wilma Liebman, outgoing Chairwoman of the NLRB, “The article gave me a new idea. You go to geneva [Switzerland] and I get a job with airbus [French company]. We screwed up the us economy and now we can tackle europe.”
  • Solomon’s comment was in response to an article published in French on the European Planet Labor website noting the devastating potential economic impact on South Carolina if the plant were to be scuttled: “Two billion dollars were invested in Charleston, 1,000 employees were recruited, and the site was supposed to open in July… until the NLRB meddled in.”
  • On April 22, 2011, NLRB attorney Debra Willen received an email, in which Republican Sen. James DeMint of South Carolina is ridiculed as “Sen. Dement.”
  • On May 12, 2011, NLRB Deputy Assistant General Counsel Joseph Baniszewski emailed a political cartoon to Deputy Assistant General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo mocking the state of South Carolina with regard to Boeing Corporation’s decision to locate its manufacturing facility in that state.
  • On April 28, 2011, Miriam Szapiro sent an email to NLRB attorney Debra Willen commenting on an article in The Economist expressing some support for the Boeing lawsuit: “Exactly; it just shows you how incredibly reactionary the US is, that the conservative Economist thinks we’re Neanderthal.”
  • On April 20, 2011, Mara-Louise Anzalone, counsel for Acting NLRB General Counsel Lafe Solomon, took exception to U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) statement, “As Senator, I will do everything in my power, including introducing legislation cutting off funding for this wide goose chase, to stop the NLRB’s frivolous complaint [against Boeing].” In an email to NLRB regional attorney Anne Pomerantz, Anzalone writes, “Awesome. Sounds like they’re just going to furlough you and me.”

The documents also include Lafe Solomon’s personal notes detailing conversations with Senator Graham, who said, according to the notes, that “the ‘retaliatory charge’ of the Machinists against Boeing would have huge economic and political consequences” and that if the NLRB filed the complaint, the senator would come out “full guns a-blazing.” The notes also describe Senator Graham as saying “that he was more reasonable than his Senate counterpart (Sen. De Mint).”

The NLRB filed a lawsuit in April 2011, against Boeing, claiming that the company’s decision to open a Dreamliner production line in South Carolina was in retaliation against The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers for a series of union strikes that reportedly slowed production of the plane in 2008 in Washington State. According to Boeing, the NLRB’s “claim is legally frivolous and represents a radical departure from both NLRB and Supreme Court precedent. Boeing has every right under both federal law and its collective bargaining agreement to build additional U.S. production capacity outside of the Puget Sound region.”



Judicial Watch last month released NRLB documents that detailed additional controversial comments by NRLB staff.

“These documents provide further evidence that the Obama administration’s attack on Boeing is irresponsible and politically motivated,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “NLRB attorneys come off as juvenile politicos rather than professionals interested in arbitrating a labor dispute. The utter contempt for congressional oversight shows that the NRLB thinks it is above the law. We hope these documents help educate the public about the ongoing abuse of power by this agency.”

Last year, President Obama bypassed the U.S. Senate and recess-appointed Craig Becker to head the NLRB’s five-member board. The Becker appointment was made after the Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate refused to move forward on his confirmation. An ally of ACORN, Becker had previously worked for the SEIU and the AFL-CIO, major financial backers of Obama and the Democratic Party. Controversially, Becker has refused to recuse himself from certain NLRB decisions affecting his former union clients.

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