No, the ruling was not issued by the Ultimate Fighting Championship. It was the National Labor Relations Board that gave a green light to union thuggery in workplace representative elections. The ruling was handed down by NLRB Chairwoman Wilma Liebman and board member Gary Becker. Liebman was originally appointed to the board by President Clinton, then was reappointed twice by President George W. Bush. Becker is President Obama’s recess-appointed former SEIU lawyer who nonetheless hears cases involving SEIU affiliates. The decision came in a case that arose from a 2008 workplace representation election at MasTec DirecTV that was won by the Communications Workers of America on a 14-12 vote. Several of the anti-union employees reported numerous threats of violence against them and their families by pro-union advocates. As described by the NLRB, the threats included “a statement by prounion employee Anthony Hodges to employee Matthew Abel that Hodges could ‘whip [employee Dennis Sheil’s] a*s’ or sabotage his work; an anonymous telephone threat to employee Lou Mays that the caller would ‘get even’ with him if he ‘backstab[bed] us’; and statements by prounion employee Chris Verbal to a group of three or four employees that Verbal would ‘b*tch slap’ two other employees (who were not present at the time) or ‘whip their f–in’ ass’ if they ‘cost us the election,’ and that he would ‘whip [supervisor] Eddie’s ass’ if the union lost.”
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