Republicans Call NLRB ‘Thugs’ From ‘A Third-World Country’ For Standing Up For Workers

[Donnachaidh]

http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2011/05/03/gop-workers-thugs/

Late last month, the National Labor Relations Board announced that it was filing a complaint against Boeing, alleging that the airline manufacturer decided to move a planned production line from Washington state to South Carolina as retribution against workers in Washington striking. As evidence, they pointed to public pronouncements from Boeing officials, including one who said, “the overriding factor was not the business climate. And it was not the wages we’re paying today. It was that we cannot afford to have a work stoppage, you know, every three years.”

It is a violation of national labor law to retaliate against workers for striking, so the NLRB advanced its complaint. This has whipped the right wing into an uproar, and several Republican senators took to the floor today to deride the NLRB for “acting like thugs that you might see in a third world country”:

SEN. JIM DEMINT (R-SC): The administration, I believe, is acting like thugs that you might see in a third-world country, trying to bully and intimidate employers…This is crazy.

SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-SC): This complaint is dangerous. This complaint is a dangerous road to go down. This complaint is politics at its worst…The Congress should speak, the administration should speak out and say ‘this is frivolous.’

Video at the link --

[Gabi Hayes]

1. always, and with a burning passion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWzPka0Wk1Q

[socialist_n_TN]

2. Traditional RW talking point...........

If you're on the side of the workers or even on the side of ACCOUNTIBIILITY for the capitalists, you're a "thug". Even if you're on the side of the law and the LAW is on the side of the workers, you're a "thug".

I'm proud to be a "thug" then.

[Omaha Steve]

3. My old NLRB case I was fired in 1980

<261 NLRB No. 38> Industrial Label Corp., 17-CA-9763 INDUSTRIAL LABEL CORPORATION Industrial Label Corporation and Graphic Arts In- ternational Union, Local 520. Case 17-CA- 9763 April 28, 1982 DECISION AND ORDER BY MEMBERS FANNING, JENKINS, AND ZIMMERMAN On June 19, 1981, Administrative Law Judge Maurice M. Miller issued the attached Decision in this proceeding. Thereafter, the General ...

PDF: http://mynlrb.nlrb.gov/link/document.aspx/09031d45800b8166


Republicans probably said that about my case too.

OS

[madrchsod]

4. they can go .... themselves.