The Heritage Foundation’s Hans von Spakovsky and James Sherk have a must-read post at The Corner about an internal NLRB memorandum detailing plans to give unions much greater power over employers:
This memo, and the Boeing charges, are not the first evidence that the Obama administration is using every lever of federal agency power to attack free enterprise to the benefit of organized labor. Former Department of Labor appointee Don Todd told The Daily Caller‘s Matthew Boyle this January:
That is just blackmail. And Obama has the EPA in on the game too. Again from Boyle:
By increasing the number of “green” requirements truckers have to comply with in order to get into some major United States ports — like Los Angeles, Long Beach and Oakland — the Obama administration and the Environmental Protection Agency are helping push previously independent truckers into companies, which then makes them vulnerable to unionization or, in many cases, forced to join a union.
Unions are a major drag on a firms competitiveness. Studies show that unionized firms spend 15% less on research and development than non-unionized firms and 6% less on capital investments. If a firm is in a competitive industry, this can mean death. If a firm is in an international industry, which pretty much all of them are today, it means less jobs here in the United States.