Tea Party Traitors continue their attacks on the middle class by attempting to destroy the NLRB

I watched CSPAN in horror yesterday as billionaire bullys', House of Representative, Teaparty traitors rammed through a bill in the House of Representatives to destroy what's left of the National Labor Relations Board. This push to end the NLRB is a continuation of the massive campaign which attempts to end American unions and the middle class jobs they create. It is no doubt organized and funded by the billionaire bully, Koch Brothers, David and Charles.
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/09/koch-brothers-million-dollar-donor-club
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/irishred/wisconsin-recall-election-races_n_921215_101864009.html

Currently the NRLB is nearly toothless as a result of previous Republican Robbercons attacks. But what tiny bits of power it has left to protect our right to get middle class wages and benefits is being targeted for elimination by this bill.

Robbercons and the billionaire bullies that hire them want no shreds of regulation and power left to protect the middle class. All will be gone if this bill passes the Senate and if President Obama yet again 'compromises' with the Billionaire Bullys,' bought and paid for members, of Congress by giving in and allowing them to walk all over him.

Let's fight back against this attack.

Read the alert below on this same topic from the AFL.

Republicans Push NLRB Attack Bill Through House
http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/09/15/republicans-push-nlrb-attack-bill-through-house/

by Mike Hall, Sep 15, 2011

House Republicans today continued their attack on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) when they passed (238-186) a bill that would cripple the agency and allow employers to retaliate against workers who exercise their workplace rights. Under the bill, employers would even be able to legally eliminate workers’ jobs. The bill is not expected to be brought up for a Senate vote.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says about the bill (H.R. 2587):

Instead of creating good jobs, Tea Party Republicans are wasting time and playing partisan politics. H.R. 2587 is an over-reaching, special interest bill that advances the interests of corporate donors while attacking working people, their rights and their jobs. It’s one more example of an anti-worker agenda that’s bad for America and bad for the middle class.

Republicans, tea party extremists and business groups have used a routine complaint the NLRB issued against the Boeing Co. in April as cover for their near hysterical and sweeping attacks on workers and the NLRB.

In April, the general counsel of the nonpartisan, independent NLRB issued a complaint against Boeing for moving a planned production line for its 787 Dreamliner from its unionized Puget Sound, Wash., plant to a nonunion facility in South Carolina. The complaint says the move was in retaliation against the Puget Sound workers for having previously exercised their federally guaranteed right to strike against Boeing and to prevent these workers from striking in the future.

In a videotaped interview with The Seattle Times, a senior Boeing executive said, “the overriding factor” in the company’s decision to move the line wasn’t “the business climate. And it wasn’t the wages we’re paying today.” It was, he said, to avoid strikes. That is illegal. (For more information, check the NLRB’s fact sheet on the complaint against Boeing.)

In a letter to House members, AFL-CIO Government Affairs Director Bill Samuel says:

Retaliating against workers for exercising their legally protected rights, as Boeing is alleged to have done, is against the law, and has been for 75 years. H.R. 2587 would take away the NLRB’s authority to restore workers to their jobs when companies simply eliminate work in order to get rid of employees who are pro-union or when companies eliminate work to avoid their legal obligation to bargain.

Earlier this week 250 professors said the bill would mean that:

Employers will be able to eliminate jobs or transfer employees or work for no purpose other than to punish employees for exercising their rights and the Board will be powerless to direct the employer to return the work regardless of the circumstances. And these employees will lose their jobs because they tried to exercise their federally protected rights.

In June, an NLRB administrative law judge rejected Boeing’s motion to dismiss the charges. The case is now being heard in Seattle.

Yesterday, NLRB acting general counsel Lafe Solomon issued a statement, saying his decision to issue a complaint against Boeing “was based on a careful investigation and a review of the facts under longstanding federal labor law.”

The decision had absolutely nothing to do with political considerations, and there were no consultations with the White House. Regrettably, some have chosen to insert politics into what should be a straightforward legal procedure. These continuing political attacks are baseless and unprecedented and take the focus away from where it belongs—the ongoing trial in Seattle.

Says Trumka:

The American people are calling on Congress to focus on job creation. Shame on those who are pursuing a political agenda that does the bidding of big corporations.