Contact Your Senators NOW and Urge them To Vote No on Radical Craig Becker’s Nomination.
The Senate is scheduled to vote TODAY on the nomination of radical union apologist Craig Beck to the National Labor Relations Board.
It’s vital you contact your Senators IMMEDIATELY to help derail this out of control union lackey from being on this board.
You can find your Senators direct lines through this link.
One recent piece of evidence to add to the growing Becker rap sheet:
In last week’s U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing, Obama nominee Craig Becker clearly tried to put distance between himself and his former client ACORN:
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) asked Becker this question:
“Do you perform work for and provide advice to ACORN or ACORN-affiliated groups while employed by your current employers or on a volunteer basis?”
Becker responded, “Senator McCain, I have never done so.” (Emphasis added)[2]
Becker statement to the Senate Committee is that he has never provided legal advice to ACORN or to an ACORN affiliate while employed by SEIU; but, an ACORN produced report directly conflicts Becker’s statement.
ACORN’s “2006 YEAR ENDING – YEAR BEGINNING REPORTS” publication (a compilation of reports filed by ACORN organizations) declared that Becker while serving as SEIU Counsel was also a counsel for ACORN:
“Legal Representation – In the past we have used Steve Bachmann and the CCI legal team; SEIU counsel, Craig Becker; Art Martin in Southern Illinois…” (Emphasis added)[3]
In addition as the National Right To Work Committee’s report on Becker noted, ACORN’s Founder Wade Rathke produced some interesting commentary about Becker that contradicts his statement as well:
“Here’s a big win no matter how you shake and bake it: Craig Becker being nominated for a seat on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)! … having crossed paths with Craig for more than 20 years, finally we have a situation where a brilliant, effective, and pro-worker/pro-union lawyer will be on the NLRB. …
“I can remember Keith Kelleher[4] negotiating the subsidy for [ACORN’s] SEIU Local 880 in Chicago and always making sure that there was the money for the organizers, but that SEIU was also still willing to allow access to Craig [Becker].”[5]
Rathke even credits Becker with the massive forced unionization of home health care workers.[6]
“For my money Craig’s signal contribution has been his work in crafting and executing the legal strategies …leading to the membership of perhaps a half-million such workers in unions like SEIU, AFSCME, CWA, and the AFT.
“Craig was the key lawyer from the beginning in the early 1980’s who was able to piece together the arguments and representation that allowed those of us involved in trying to organize home health care workers in Illinois, Massachusetts, …His role was often behind the scenes devising the strategy with the organizer and lawyers, writing the briefs for others to file, and putting all of the pieces together, but he was the go-to-guy on all of this.”[7] (Emphasis added)
Becker Sought International Jurisdiction Over NLRB
Becker has appealed to international organizations to apply pressure to the NLRB arguing that the NLRB should follow “mainstream international laws” rather than U.S. laws.
In 2006, Becker as AFL-CIO Associate Counsel spearheaded an AFL-CIO complaint to the United Donations against the NLRB ruling that nurse shift supervisors are indeed supervisors. The AFL-CIO appeal to an international body beyond the sovereign government of the United States and the NLRB. This is the very same NLRB where Becker now wants to sit as a member.
“‘This will demonstrate how far outside the mainstream of accepted international law the U.S. is moving,’ said Craig Becker, a legal counsel to the AFL-CIO.” (Emphasis added)[8]
Becker’s ACORN associations and his deference to international laws are only a fraction of Becker’s whole public record that calls his nomination into question and the need for you to act now to stop his confirmation by your U.S. Senators.
Here are some additional reasons that you might mention to your U.S. Senators when you call or e-mail them:
Craig Becker wrote that Secret ballot “elections are profoundly undemocratic.”
- He believes that a worker’s choice should be between which unions workers should be forced to join; he does not believe a worker should have the choice not to join to a union.
- Becker argued that just as U.S. citizens cannot opt against having a congressman, workers should not be able to choose against having a union as their monopoly-bargaining agent. “‘Employees’ only choice,” explained Mr. Becker, “should be over which set of union officials get ‘exclusive’ power to negotiate their wages, benefits, and work rules.”
- In addition, Becker through his writings has attacked the members of The National Right To Work, and will be incapable of fairly judging any cases that the National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation brings before the NLRB.
Becker does not express a belief in individual rights of workers to freely choose to join or not to join a union. He supports the idea that workers should be forced into collectives like unions that dominate and control individual working conditions. Becker’s beliefs are the antithesis of American democracy and liberty, and his beliefs will have disastrous results if implemented by the NLRB.
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[1]NLRB – National Labor Relations Board: an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1935 to administer the National Labor Relations Act, the primary law governing relations between unions and employers in the private sector.
[2] Becker Lied to McCain by Matthew Vadum in The American Spectator (2010)
[3] 2006 YEAR END – YEAR BEGIN REPORTS
[4] Keith Kelleher is the head organizer of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 880 and has been a field organizer, lead organizer and head organizer for ACORN, the United Labor Unions (ULU), and SEIU Local 880 for over 20 years. (The People Shall Rule by Keith Kelleher and Madeline Talbott, 2000)
[5] Becker to the NLRB by Wade Rathke in Wade Rathke: Chief Organizer Blog
[6] This is a scheme where the state declares independent contractors who receive grants from the state to take care of people in their homes are employees of the state for collective bargaining purposes only. These created “employees” have no state pension, no state insurance, nor any other benefits of state employees.
[7] Becker to the NLRB by Wade Rathke in Wade Rathke: Chief Organizer Blog
[8] “AFL-CIO files complaint with U.N. labor group; Protest is aimed at ruling on role of supervisors” by Will Lester, ASSOCIATED PRESS in the Buffalo News. 23 Oct 2006: B7.
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