NLRB: A Rogue Agency?
By Melancton Smith • Wednesday January 30, 2013 10:08 AM PDT • 4 Comments
Earlier this week, I posted about the recent Court of Appeals decision finding that Obama violated the Constitution when making “recess appointments” when the Senate was not in recess. Well, over at Breitbart, there is an article on the response from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). At base, the NLRB has decided to ignore the court ruling and plans to continue with business as usual. This has sparked some to call that the Board’s funding be cut until it recognizes the import of the court decision.
A cut is probably in order for other reasons. According to recent statistics, union membership is declining.
Total union membership continued to decline this past year to 11.3 percent of all full-time wage and salary earners, down from 11.8 percent of all earners in 2011, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The difference between membership levels for public and private employees was stark: 35.9 percent of public-sector employees were in unions, while only 6.6 percent of private-sector employees were union members, a report released Wednesday (January 23) said.
The numbers follow a trend of declining membership over the last 20 years. In 1983, just over 20 percent of workers were members of public-or-private-sector unions. The membership decline also mirrors the recent political defeats unions have suffered in Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin.
That is good news. Maybe with a decline in union power we’ll start to see industry think about staying in the U.S.A.
Tags: Business, Constitution, Corruption, Economics, Labor, Law, Politics, Power, Progressivism, The State, Unions 
This action by Obama is illegal. He is not a dictator.....only a Pres,..
Come on Congress>..........Take care of this.
Stand up for the United States of America. It is “We the People”, not Obama says. Act on withdrawing all of them.
Pat Prewett | Jan 30, 2013 | Reply
Clause 3: Recess appointments
Main article: Recess appointment
The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.
During recesses of the Senate, the President may appoint officers, but their commissions expire at the conclusion of the Senate’s next session. For example, see George W. Bush’s 2005 appointment of John Bolton as U.N. Ambassador.
Its pretty straight forward, this is how the constitution reads, he filled those positions unconstitutionally. Don’t sweep it under the rug,
Sam Ceniti | Jan 30, 2013 | Reply
No union is necessary,
James Smallwood | Jan 30, 2013 | Reply
The statutory purpose of the NLRB, according to the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (The Wagner Act)is to protect unions from management intimidation in organizing, and to protect union representation elections from management interference and intimidation. That’s NLRB’s only purpose — it’s ONLY purpose. Of course, King Obama’s cronies have gone way beyond that, because unions are in decline — not that unionism is intrinsically bad, but because the nature of the workplace is changing so dramatically that “traditional” unionism is meaningless. My advice to business people: move your capital, your family, yourself and perhaps your citizenship, to Asia. Compare the Philippines’ (not a stellar performer in this regard) 2012 GDP increase of 6.6% with the U.S. GDP performance for the same period. I predict further shrinkage of the private-sector share of U.S. GDP in the next 4 years as the national debt increases to $25 trillion by 2016.
David A. Laibow | Feb 4, 2013 | Reply