{"id":443062,"date":"2021-04-22T17:20:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T21:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=443062"},"modified":"2021-04-22T17:20:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T21:20:49","slug":"biden-labor-board-invalidates-workers-vote-to-reject-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-labor-board-invalidates-workers-vote-to-reject-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Labor Board Invalidates Workers\u2019 Vote to Reject Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-labor-board-invalidates-workers-vote-to-reject-union%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=443062&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"29.772151898734\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Workers forced to remain in union allied to Dems<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3339.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3338.jpeg 512w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/AP080424024240-425x277.jpg 425w\" data-sizes=\"auto\"  style=\"display:none\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tAP\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/graham-piro\/\" title=\"Posts by Graham Piro\" rel=\"author\" class=\"text-red-700\">Graham Piro<\/a> \u2022 April 22, 2021 5:05 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"93.376765638513\">\n<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s labor arbiter threw out hundreds of votes from workers attempting to cut ties with a Delaware union.<\/p>\n<p>The National Labor Relations Board overruled hundreds of Delaware poultry workers who had voted to reject union leadership. The agency\u00a0said in a 3-1 ruling released Wednesday that a provision prohibiting workers from leaving a union for a set time period after a contract is signed allowed the board to ignore the workers&#8217; March 2020 vote. The decision reversed a regional NLRB director who had initially ruled in the workers&#8217; favor.<\/p>\n<p>Oscar Cruz Sosa, the employee who led the charge to hold the election, ripped union leadership for disregarding the voices of workers. &#8220;The union has been harassing and intimidating us for a long time and it\u2019s unbelievable that they\u2019re going to get their way by having 800 ballots destroyed,&#8221; Cruz Sosa told the <em>Washington\u00a0<\/em><i>Free Beacon<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are very mad that the American labor law system let us down and is forcing us to pay dues and be in a union we don\u2019t want,&#8221; Cruz Sosa said. &#8220;While politicians scream about \u2018counting every vote\u2019 and making it easier to vote, they just ordered our 800 votes to be destroyed and never counted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The decision marks a victory for the local chapter of the United Food and Commercial Workers union, the nation&#8217;s largest private sector union and a major backer of Democratic candidates. The union&#8217;s PAC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/political-action-committees-pacs\/united-food-commercial-workers-union\/C00002766\/summary\/2020\">spent<\/a> more than $1.2 million in 2020 electing Democratic candidates.<\/p>\n<p>The case turned on a &#8220;contract bar,&#8221; an NLRB policy that blocks workers from opting out of union representation for three years after a contract between union leaders and employers is signed. Representatives for the union argued that the contract bar should have blocked the election, an argument with which the NLRB, led by a chairwoman appointed by Biden, agreed. An NLRB regional director had sided with the workers because of a clause in the contract mandating that employees be part of the union.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A majority of the Board reversed the\u00a0Regional Director\u2019s\u00a0finding\u00a0that\u00a0the contract bar could not apply in this case because the contract\u00a0contained\u00a0a clearly unlawful union-security clause,&#8221; the NLRB said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlrb.gov\/news-outreach\/news-story\/national-labor-relations-board-retains-longstanding-contract-bar-doctrine\">press release<\/a> announcing the decision. &#8220;A\u00a0Board\u00a0majority\u202finstead found\u00a0that\u00a0the union-security clause\u00a0was capable of a lawful interpretation, which is all Board precedent\u00a0requires\u00a0for\u00a0a contract bar to be effective.\u00a0Member [John] Ring\u00a0dissented from this portion of the Board\u2019s holding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes after the NLRB became engulfed in a political scandal over a series of unprecedented personnel moves made by Biden. As one of his first moves in office, the Democrat\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-fires-labor-arbiter-in-unprecedented-first-move\/\">fired<\/a> the NLRB&#8217;s top prosecutor after the general counsel refused to resign. Glenn Taubman, a National Right to Work attorney who helped represent Cruz Sosa, said the Biden administration has repeatedly signaled that it &#8220;exists solely to please labor union officials.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They do not give one whit about employees and employee rights. All they want is to force employees to pay dues to labor union officials, whether those employees want to or not,&#8221; Taubman said. &#8220;The whole tone and tenor of this administration is, \u2018We&#8217;re here for the union bosses and if it&#8217;s good for them, we don&#8217;t care who it harms or it&#8217;s bad for.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The NLRB declined to comment further on the decision beyond the press release. The United Food and Commercial Workers union did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers forced to remain in union allied to Dems  AP  Graham Piro \u2022 April 22, 2021 5:05 pm President Joe Biden&#8217;s labor &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276505,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3339.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Labor Board Invalidates Workers\u2019 Vote to Reject Union","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3339.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Labor Board Invalidates Workers\u2019 Vote to Reject Union","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}