The Worst Is Yet To Come

This week, President Barack Obama renominated radical former SEIU union lawyer Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board -- a sure sign of Big Labor's "Plan B" to impose unionization on American workers by executive fiat.

Over the last few months, the hard work and commitment of concerned citizens challenging Big Labor's control over our political system and economy paid off.

Despite Organized Labor's Billion Dollar electioneering blitz, the voters rejected incumbent politicians who promised more forced unionism, bigger government, and more debt.

But you and I know: Election results won't affect the union bosses' never-ending lust for more forced union dues.

The election may slow down the dangerous legislative priorities of Big Labor's high command, but I'm afraid their "Plan B" is just as dangerous.

You see, they still want payback for their billions of dollars of support for union-label candidates in the recent election cycles. But after the midterms decreased their grip on Congress, they're going to ramp up their efforts to sneak new special privileges through the backdoor.

We've already gotten a glimpse of what this looked like in Barack Obama's first two years, with significant rule changes quietly pushed through administrative bodies like the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and National Mediation Board (NMB).

So far, Foundation attorneys have fought these schemes every step of the way.

But the worst is likely yet to come.

Former union lawyers on the NLRB have just initiated "rule-making" procedures that will further stack the deck in favor of more forced unionism.

At the center of Big Labor's behind-closed-doors strategy is Craig Becker, the radical former SEIU union lawyer installed at the NLRB last year by President Obama over bipartisan objections in the U.S. Senate.

The Foundation has exposed Becker's cynical refusal to recuse himself from cases in which he has serious conflicts of interest -- most notably in Lamons Gasket, in which union lawyers are asking the Board to overturn Dana, a Foundation-won case in which Becker authored a brief for the AFL-CIO.

As I write you, Foundation attorneys are hard at work defending this key precedent, which allows workers to force a secret ballot vote to kick out an unwanted union that gained control of the workplace in an abusive "card check" campaign.

And the NLRB is hardly the only place where Obama has installed former union partisans to do Big Labor's bidding.

Foundation attorneys are also challenging an unprecedented rule change by former union officials on the NMB to grant railway and airline union bosses monopoly bargaining status with the support of only a minority of workers in the class or craft.

Big Labor operatives are no doubt frustrated that they no longer wield unchallenged power in Congress and state legislatures across the country. So Foundation attorneys could be busier than ever fighting off more and more union boss schemes in the bureaucracy.

Sincerely,