Union Bosses Scheme to Be Girl Scouts' Next 'Tagalong'

The same sort of deception and unfairness by Big Labor that would have allowed union organizers to replace workplace elections with coercion-prone “card check” is rearing its ugly head, and this time it may be Girl Scouts who pay the highest price.

President Obama’s National Labor Relations Board is currently considering Roundy’s v Milwaukee Building and Construction Trades, AFL-CIO. The union is hoping to persuade the NLRB that if an employer lets one outside party onto their premises, they have to let everybody in. Since, you know, there’s no real difference between allowing a charity to collect a few bucks and inviting in a union organizer who’s trying to get your customers to boycott your store …

Should the federal government force employers to treat all outside organizations alike, the clear answer for anyone with half a brain is to deny access to everyone equally. One business owner, Brett McMahon, writes at Halt The Assault:

If this new request by union leaders is allowed to become law, its effect will be for many business operators like myself to have no choice but to close doors to any outside groups. The impact to charities ability to operate and reach support would be devastating. Ultimately, unions are trying to make sure that no one wins.

Sorry, Girl Scouts. Sorry, Boy Scouts. Sorry, Red Cross. And the local soup kitchen. This is not hyperbole. This is a direct threat to the ability for small business to say who comes onto their property and how they affect their business.

In response, the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace filed an amicus brief asking the Board to arrive at a “standard which recognizes that no employer should be required to give private property access rights to a non-employee labor organization for the purpose of engaging in activities, such as consumer boycott handbilling, which are plainly harmful to the business of the owner of the property.”

This case is important to watch because 1) it will show whether small business entrepreneurs still get to control some measure of their own private property and 2) it highlights the insanity at the very top echelons of the modern organized labor behemoth.

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