CAIR loses battle to block unionization of its national office.

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collective bargaining, Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR), National Labor Relations Board, NLRB, Progressive policies, Radical Islam, SEIU

Although the radical Islamic organization, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), will march with its Communist comrades for LGBT and transgender rights, minimum wage hikes and unionization of fast food franchises and companies such as Boeing, tolerance of Progressive dogma involving workers’ rights has its limits.

CAIR is fighting the Service Employees International Union’s attempts to unionize employees at CAIR’s national office.

What’s good for others is bad for CAIR?

Quite a turn around considering that during the last week of February, CAIR’s Georgia office marched alongside demonstrators in Marietta Georgia calling for improved work conditions and the unionization of a Nissan car plant in Mississippi.

According to The Daily Caller, more than 50% of CAIR employees filled out union cards handed out by SEIU 500.

CAIR took its fight to the NLRB arguing that “that it is a religious organization and therefore exempt from the National Labor Relations Act.”

Asserting that CAIR is a “civil rights group” and not a religious organization, on April 7, 2017, the NLRB’s Region 05 rejected CAIR’s argument.

The NLRB will hold an election by secret ballot on April 24, 2017.

See NLRB documents:

• Decision and Direction of Election (pdf format)
• Notice of Election (pdf format)

Christopher Honey, communications director for SEIU Local 500 was taken aback by CAIR’s reaction to the unionization of its employees. Honey told The Daily Caller:

“My understanding is that they [CAIR employees] reached out to us. This is an area where we are present, and so its not unusual to be approached by employees like the ones at CAIR,” Honey explained.

“We were surprised,” Honey admitted when asked about the decision by CAIR’s management to fight efforts by its employees to unionize. “They have historically been a progressive organization, and so I was very surprised that they saw it fit to appeal,” he continued…

Hold on to your hat, I do not see CAIR conceding to the will of its employees, the NLRB ruling or SEIU. How about you?

H/t Middle East Forum.

Cross-posted on Grumpy Opinions.

Anti-Walmart Union Mum as Hillary Gets Big Donation From Heiress Alice Walton

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Alice Walton, collective bargaining, Hillary Clinton, Political donations, selective outrage, Walmart

Washington Free Beacon by Zach Gorelick

Alice Walton photo: Walmart/Hillary Clinton photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr (cc)

A major anti-Walmart union is staying tight-lipped about billionaire Walmart heiress Alice Walton’s six-figure donation to Hillary Clinton.

The United Food and Commercial Workers Union endorsed Clinton in January, less than one month after Walton contributed more than $353,000 to a pro-Hillary fund.

International president of the UFCW Marc Perrone wrote in a statement, “It is our members’ strong belief that Hillary Clinton is not just the strongest presidential candidate, but the right one.” The union has sparred for decades with Walmart, going so far as to create the ‘Making Change at Walmart’ union group, which represents Walmart workers and frequently tangles[…]

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Apparently, Hillary Clinton is not the only corporate Democratic whore out there. Let me correct that. Bernie Sanders does not want his supporters to use that language but then I am not a supporter.

In any event, I stand corrected; Hillary Clinton is not the only corporate Progressive whore out there. Big labor leaders are obviously in line not far behind Clinton.

Who would have guessed, the hypocrites!

Sanders Says Verizon ‘in a Given Year Has Not Paid a Nickel in Taxes’ — So CEO Releases Inconvenient Numbers in Scathing Response

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Bernie Sanders, collective bargaining, CWA, Redistribution of Wealth, Verizon

TheBlaze by Dave Urbanski

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Prior to Wednesday’s strike by nearly 40,000 Verizon employees, Sen. Bernie Sanders announced to a cheering crowd in Buffalo, New York, on Monday that the corporation “in a given year has not paid a nickel in taxes” despite billions in profit.

That didn’t sit well with Verizon’s CEO, who posted a scathing response Wednesday to the Democratic presidential candidate’s “contemptible” and ”uninformed views.”

“[Sanders’] first accusation – that Verizon doesn’t pay its fair share of taxes – is just plain wrong,” Lowell McAdam wrote in a LinkedIn piece. ”As our financial statements clearly show, we’ve paid more than $15.6 billion in taxes over the last two years – that’s a 35% tax rate in 2015, for anyone who’s counting. …”

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On Verizon.com/about/news page, Verizon responds accordingly:

Senator Sanders needs to get his facts straight

Source: Verizon.

At a speech last night at the University of Buffalo, Sen. Bernie Sanders said, “Over the years Verizon has made billions of dollars in profit, but in a given year has not paid a nickel in taxes.” Sen. Sanders is dead wrong on this issue. To set the record straight, we are reposting a Feb. 24, 2016, statement from Mark Mullet, vice president of Federal Government Relations at Verizon. The issue of corporate tax reform is too important to be influenced by a continued campaign of misinformation.

Verizon paid $15.6 billion in 2014-2015 taxes

By Mark Mullet, Vice President, Federal Government Relations

In any election year, there’s always an extra amount of rhetoric about corporate taxes. But sometimes basic facts get lost in the claims and counter-claims. For example, there is a lot of misinformation about how much Verizon pays in taxes.

Let’s set the record straight: Verizon complies with all tax laws and pays the taxes it owes under the law. In 2015, that amounted to $8.445 billion. That’s $5.293 billion in income taxes (net amount of any refunds the company received); $1.284 billion in employment taxes related to its 177,700 employees; and $1.868 billion in property and other taxes.

These are the tax dollars that Verizon actually paid, as attested to by the company’s CEO and CFO, and verified by an independent auditor. The company reported these totals in its recent 10-K, which was filed with the SEC. This is even more than the $7.180 billion that Verizon paid in taxes in 2014[…]

 

While I am definitely not a Verizon fan, I am far less a fan of Bernie Sanders AND his ideology.

DOT ‘overtime king’ demoted from supervisor position

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abuse, bureacratic corruption, collective bargaining, de Blasio administration, new-york-city

While the de Blasio administration is at fault, correction leads the pack in government abuse, the problem of city workers raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars in overtime, the tab of which is picked up by the taxpayer has existed for decades (likely longer) with previous administrations.

New York Post

The city’s overtime king has been demoted as part of an ongoing probe into alleged pay abuses at the Department of Transportation.

David Russell, who pulled in $259,705 last year on a base salary of $82,076 working as a supervisor of highway repairers, was demoted to highway repairer, according to the DOT….

Russell’s base salary was increased recently to $92,457 under a new union contract…..

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Russell’s “overtime irregularities” are under investigation by an administration that claims it no longer has faith in this individual “working in a supervisory role,” Boss Tweed lives on.

No shame to their gain in particular since this individual is a highway repairer and for some reason, NYC highways and streets continue to look the same. Road repairs in NYC under Bill de Blasio may prove to be the City’s biggest fraud since the Dinkins administration. Same scam different decade.

Union Officials Leave Carteret Holiday Inn to Avoid Worker Vote

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collective bargaining, Holiday Inn Carteret New Jersey, National Right to Work, New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council Local 6 AFL-CIO

 

 

The New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council Local 6, AFL-CIO elected to walk away this morning in a face-saving move, from the Holiday Inn in Carteret, New Jersey not giving hotel employees the opportunity to vote them out. How about that?

National Right to Work Legal Defense Fund

Carteret, NJ (January 29, 2016) – Faced with the prospect of an embarrassing election loss, The New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council Local 6 union officially walked away from the Carteret Holiday Inn. The campaign to remove the unwanted union was spearheaded by employees who received free assistance from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys throughout the legal process.

Holiday Inn employee Michelle Buniak originally submitted a union decertification petition in September 2014. The petition, which was signed by a majority of her coworkers, asked her employer to remove Local 6 from the hotel. Buniak’s employer responded by withdrawing recognition from the union, but union officials refused to leave without a fight.

Instead of acceding to the employees’ wishes, union lawyers avoided immediate eviction by filing a barrage of spurious unfair labor practice charges […]

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U.S. signed agreement with Mexico to teach immigrants to unionize

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collective bargaining, Communism, Employment, Illegal Immigration, National Labor Relations Board, New World Order, Politics, Progressives

 

Washington Examiner, Sean Higgins

The federal government has signed agreements with three foreign countries — Mexico, Ecuador and the Philippines — to establish outreach programs to teach immigrants their rights to engage in labor organizing in the U.S. The agreements do not distinguish between those who entered legally or illegally…..

The five-member board is the agency that enforces the National Labor Relations Act, the main federal law covering unions. In 2013, Lafe Solomon, the board’s then-acting general counsel, signed a “memorandum of understanding” with Mexico’s U.S. ambassador. The current general counsel, Richard Griffin, signed additional agreements with the ambassadors of Ecuador and the Philippines last year….

 

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Outraged yet? You should be America. The law’s protections are extended to illegal immigrants, employed and engaging in union organizing while not legally authorized to work in the USA. American businesses can be sanctioned for terminating the illegal if the NLRB ordains that he or she was terminated for “activism.”

ALL ABOUT POLITICS AND THE VOTE:

Breitbart

SEIU recently launched a website where illegal immigrants can learn how to take advantage of the Obama amnesty order. The website, iAmerica.org, also includes a voter registration widget, powered by Rock the Vote on its ‘Citizens’ page, but stipulates,’If you are a U.S. citizen and over the age of 18 you have the right to have a say in how our country is governed. Register to vote and make your voice heard….’

Other labor groups like the AFL-CIO are training organizers to recruit illegal immigrants; the United Food and Commercial Workers is planning workshops and enlisting churches and community groups to locate illegal workers….

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Again, I ask…Are you outraged yet?

LINKS:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/u.s.-signed-agreement-with-mexico-to-teach-immigrants-to-unionize/article/2562215
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/12/25/unions-launch-campaign-to-woo-illegal-immigrants/