HAS OBAMA PARTIALLY SURRENDERED?

Dear Conservatives,

What a way to start 2014.

Even Barack Obama's radical National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) knew it was playing with a losing hand.

On Thursday, the deadline passed for the NLRB to ask the United States Supreme Court to review two strong rebukes against it made by lower courts.

The NLRB's surrender preserves an appeals court decision, won by your National Right to Work Foundation, striking down the agency's crusade to strong-arm virtually every workplace and worker in America.

As you may remember, a couple of years ago the Obama Labor Board announced a new policy that would have required as many as SIX MILLION private-sector employers to post biased notices about the National Labor Relations Act that effectively serve as a roadmap to forced unionization.


Mom and Pop shops, small businesses, and even some religiously-affiliated organizations would have come under the Obama Labor Board's microscope.

Make no mistake, the Obama NLRB far exceeded its authority.

No other federal agency has ever made it unlawful to fail to post a notice that wasn't required by Congress.

Any job provider that failed to post the biased notice could find itself forced into a lengthy and costly legal battle with the NLRB, designed solely to unionize their workforce.

Mom and Pop can't afford that.

The rule would have also handed aggressive union organizers another weapon in so-called "corporate campaigns" in which they drag a business through the mud in the media with frivolous accusations of employer misconduct.

Union bosses only back off after the business agrees to throw its employees under the bus and let the union launch an abusive "card check" organizing campaign.

Adding insult to injury, the posting's pro-forced unionism bias couldn't be clearer.

No mention of the right to decertify an unwanted union.

No mention of the right to divert forced union dues to a charity if a worker has a conscientious, religious objection to union membership.

No mention of the right to refrain from financially supporting union-boss politics or, for workers in a Right to Work state, to opt out of paying any forced "fees."

Federal labor law is supposedly intended to help workers protect their rights, but the biased and ideologically-charged Obama Labor Board has turned into an organizing tool for Big Labor.

The NLRB knew it was on thin ice and surrendered -- this time.

Your National Right to Work Foundation must remain vigilant to challenge whatever forced-unionism scheme the Obama Labor Board tries to ram through the bureaucratic backdoor next.

Thanks again for your continued support.

Sincerely,

Mark Mix

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