NLRB Wants to Force Companies to Turn Over Employee Contact Info
- Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:10pm by
Becket Adams
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Peter Schaumber appeared on Fox’s Your World with Neil Cavuto to discuss a troubling new development within the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
Board Chair Mark Pearce is introducing a series of new regulations. One of these regulations, if passed, would require businesses to surrender their employee’s personal contact information to campaigning union heads.
“If the National Labor Relations Board gets its way, companies could be forced to hand over your contact information, whether you like it or not, to union leaders,” Fox host Neil Cavuto said. “Union leaders having access to your phone number, your email address?”
Schaumber, himself a former NLRB chairman, joined Cavuto to discuss his great fear: that unions will use that information to harass people not in a union.
“I think it’s terrible. Workers have a right to be left alone,” Schaumber said.
“They have a right not to be harassed during a union organizing campaign. If a worker has given his or her employer their home phone, their personal email address, their cell phone, it was in the expectation that it wasn’t going to be given to third parties but was going to be used by the employer for the purposes of what it was intended to be given for. And in most instances that’s to contact the employee under emergency situations.”
See the Cavuto interview:
“But could companies even be allowed to do it as things stand now? I mean, there must be some — even civil libertarians who might be otherwise predisposed to like unions who must be aghast at this,” Cavuto said.
“Neil, I don’t know of any federal or state law that specifically protects this kind of information but we shouldn’t need the law to tell us what’s an invasion of privacy; it’s common sense!” Schaumber said.
“But it’s also like if you – you get an email address for a vacation site, or what have you, and before you know it, you’re getting emails from folks who manufacture those loud vacation shirts and luggage and everything else, because someone obviously has sold your name and address to other entities. That’s one thing. But when my boss does it, that’s another. Isn’t it?” Cavuto ask.
“Well, your boss isn’t going to want to do it. But what it’s going to be is that the NLRB is going to require it,” Schaumber answered. “It’s going to the the federal government requiring this kind of personal information disclosed to unions.”
“But peter! Again, you’re the smart guy, I’m the dumb guy, there’s no way that that is kosher,” Cavuto said. “You know what I’m saying? You cannot force a company to essentially open up its databanks to union sympathizers and say ‘Have at it! Contact these people!’”
“Neil, I agree with you I think most Americans agree with you but remember: we have appointees to the National Labor Relations Board that are union advocates,” Schaumber said. “They want to stack the deck in favor of unionization and the desires of organized labor take priority over the interests of workers and the legitimate interests of management.”
And for those who remain skeptical that the NLRB would ever try to pass this regulation, consider the following:
At the end of 2011, the NLRB had three vacancies. Since then, all five board seats have been filled. The last three members added to the NLRB were never vetted, voted on, or approved by Congress.
Designated as “recess appointments,” Department of Labor Attorney Sharon Block, labor lawyer Richard Griffin, and NLRB counsel Terence Flynn were all appointed to the NRLB (without any Congressional approval) by President Obama.
The Senate was running in a “pro forma” session (“open for business in name with no actual business planned”), which means, technically, they weren’t “recess” appointments at all.
As Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said when the president “recess” appointed Richard Cordray as the nation’s chief consumer watchdog:
…this lands this appointee in uncertain legal territory, threatens the confirmation process and fundamentally endangers the Congress’ role in providing a check on the excesses of the executive branch
“On January 4, President Obama announced his decision to appoint three new members to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB),” NYULocal‘s Rebecca Nathanson writes.
“The board had previously been at risk of losing its ability to rule on cases as only two of its five seats were occupied, but the appointments…gave the Board a quorum,” Nathason added.
Considering that President Obama is no stranger to unions or union leadership, Schaumber’s charge that the NLRB has been stacked with union advocates might not be too far off the mark.
President Barack Obama & President of the AFL-CIO Richard Trumka
(H/T: Breitbart TV)
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Satan is the antichrist
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:56pmIf any union loser tries to call me, I will just have there number blocked.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:14pmI am not Joining anything. I welcome someone calling me, to harass me.
They would be one unlucky son of a beotch.
I have had it with the Corporation. I thought I had a Country and a Government.
Turns out, we lost America in 1933 under the Emergency Banking Act.
The Government Owed the PRIVATE BANK (The federal Reserve) for the default on the 1913 Federal Reserve Act.
In 1933 the Government had to declare bankruptcy and make good on the T-Bills that the PRIVATE BANK held.
The Gov‘t gave the fed all it’s gold. It wasn’t enough.
The Gov’t demanded that the citizens turned in their gold, and made a ‘trading with the enemies act’ under Emergency powers. Any Citizen holding onto gold or trading with gold would be considered an enemy of the state and could be imprisoned and even executed under martial law. This wasn’t enough to pay the debt.
So the Government Pledged it’s LAND, Government and PEOPLE to the PRIVATE BANK as collateral on the Bankruptcy.
They pledged that you would pay taxes to the Private bank for the rest of your life.
Birth Certificates became law in all states in 1933 and Social Security in 1936.
These are bonds for the Receivers of the bankruptcy.
In 1944 the IMF was granted the Quitclaim and created the UN in 1945.
The UN’s IMF were the trustees until 1992.
Under Bushes E.O. 12803, (The Infrastructure privatization act) the UN began selling off America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlCs7u1ihws
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:15pmCall you? They might try to fire you for the sake of diversity. It’s personal with these unions.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:32pm*corrections
1) “In 1933, Corp. U.S. went bankrupt and the States agreed to support their resolution. In keeping with the bankruptcy, the Corp. U.S. Congress adjusted their Trading with the Enemies Act with their Emergency War Powers Act, which recognized the people of the United States of America are enemies of Corp. U.S.”
http://www.teamlaw.net/history.htm
2) The IMF is still the Creditor.
Report Post »darkrage000
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:38pmcall you? bah, they will call you, show up at your home, follow you to work, beat up your car, trail your children, harass your friends, harass your co-workers….
Report Post »oldoldtimer
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 12:12amI had union workers call me scabb and interfer with my work because I would not join the union. They posted my name amd address on the bulletin board under the heading Scabbs. One night on the way home for work I saw a car sitting beside the road hood up and broken down. Itwas the local union president. I stopped before I realized who it was. as soon as I saw it was her. I got back in my vehicle. She came running up begging for help. I told her as a scabb I was prevented from helping her now or ever. Next day at work I noticed the scabb list was gone and I never was called that name again.
Report Post »Pat Alexander
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 7:25amThere people are evil. Period.
Report Post »Jackers
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 7:58amUnbelievable… Amazing what this administration is trying to get away with…
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 8:11amI don’t understand voters who support candidates that are in favor of the antiPatriot act.
Right now, the same folks that brought you the so-called “Patriot” Act, indefinite detention of American citizens, and an unaccountable TSA and an invasive Department of Homeland Security are preparing to wage war on your freedom online.
The government is fully prepared to take unprecedented power over the internet unless you and I stop them today.
Two bills – SOPA (HR 3261) in the House and Protect IP (S 968) in the Senate – are being pushed by the Big Government leadership of both houses. Action on one or both bills could happen any day.
What is the government trying to do? Gain a foothold in the last truly free place on earth – the internet.
Wake up, America! Learn to recognize a progressive Republican, or voting R against D won’t matter.
Report Post »byehlik
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 9:10amUnion thugs getting my personal info? I think not! If one of those bastards call me I will track them down and………Fill in the blank. Such corruption! This Obama creep has got to go, him and all his Marxist dolts.
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:17amHey – the Unions have no choice! Union membership is down and revenues are down. I have a cousin who is a first shift steward and knows about this. One of the overwelming problems is people getting layed off and not paying unions dues – over 900,000 since 2009. This is a bunch of money and a lot of active members in Texas (right to work state) have gotten out of the union. These people saw their Union support Obama with their dues for Hope Nad Change which has not worked out.
Report Post »B-Neil
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:57amThe Government has no place participating in Union activities. If the Unions cannot maintain there status in the community, Then they go by the wayside. There are no rights to Union growth. Individual Freedom cannot be restrained by Unions. Unions are a shadow of Communism. If your a Union member you chose to be a communinst. Now thet you know your ignorant level, price out another Company. CARRY ON McDUFF
Report Post »USAF2003
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 1:50pmGood, let ‘em call me…I‘ll tell ’em go F them selves. When they show up at my house…hahaha we have the “castle doctrine” where I live.
Report Post »hud
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 4:51pmHell, don’t do that, invite him over, let him in the house, and have him arrested for B&E.
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 8:16pmUnion members are losers that have no problem stealing from their fellow americans at the very least. At the worst they are murdering thugs. Every union is corrupt. They have stood with the enemies of American from the very begining and seek to destroy this country at all costs. They are proud of their hatred of this country and its constitution.
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 12:24amMy family owns one of the largest non-union electrical contracting companies in our state. The union has been known to show up to our job sites trying to scalp. To my knowledge, we haven’t had a single journeyman leave our business to work for more pay and less job security. Of course, company trucks and an owner who will work with you more than any union rep are big advantages. Hell, we’ve had guys go with the union reps to eat with no intention of even listening to them. On the union bill of course. You union guys can buy my lunch all you want. I live in a right to work state and you can shove that union crap.
Report Post »michael48
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 10:49amjust 1099 your work force…as needed basis…provides reality , He!! most of my fellas got so frustrated just getting a buss. lic., workmans comp. , and compliance (liability ins.) and the like , they just gave up…they definatly have a different view of Gov. Gumba CRAP .
Report Post »USPATRIOT101
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 12:31pmAs a former Teamster, I suggest they skip calling me. I don’t place nice with union thugs. My employer will have the incorrect info anyway. Nobody owns me.
Report Post »Hollywood
Posted on January 30, 2012 at 1:32pmObama is certainly a CLEAR and Present Danger to the Republic.
Report Post »wir505
Posted on February 5, 2012 at 4:29amThey will get your address too! This is not good for any citizen.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:55pmMy info is written on the rounded end of a 9mm…HOW close and fast do they want to read it???
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:17pmYou may have to send it a few times, 9mm is kind of small. Think about upgrading to a .50 or .45, they can read it better on the first go round.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 12:08amHow is a gun going to beat this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-TgFX-UkeM
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 12:48amThis is the Marxist part of what Obama has waiting for us. Are we going to take this?
Report Post »Lord_Frostwind
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 2:02am“You want to know how to beat the unions, I’ll tell you how to beat the unions. Their man brings a club, you bring a gun. You get a bruise, he gets sent to the morgue. That’s how you get the unions.”
Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 7:03am@ Bluebonnet: we already ARE letting it happen- look around you.
Report Post »drago
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 7:25am@Probiemsoiver
Report Post »You ask how a gun will beat this, it has come to a point in this country where we cannot elect someone to “fix” this country, it is up to us, “real” Americans to fix it ourselves, and if it involves guns , so be it, we have a choice, give this nation to obummer and his commie friends, or fight and even die to keep America, America. My question to you is, what will you be willing to do?
ProbIemSoIver
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 8:49amYour question to me is what will I do?
Let me begin By saying right now I am what is called a Info warrior, I counteract the lies and revisionist history created by the powers that be. I am responsible for waking people up to the truth at this moment in time. I study our Constitution, history, law, Geo-Politics and with a very open mind.
What I have found is shocking. I am responsible for posting links that get over 1000 hits a day.
Two friends tell Two friends…
I do this for pleasure. Not monetary gain.
I loathe the global elite with a passion. They have destroyed my Country and Life.
I tell everybody I see on the Steets about Chemtrails, HAARP, the federal reserve PRIVATE bank,
I tell everyone about the Military / Industrial Complex. I spill the beans Daily. I am ready for someone to come and try and shut me up.
Better bring 24. 12 isn’t enough.
iii
LIVE FREE or DIE !!!!!!!
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 9:03amDrago. It is so obvious you are a government shill trying to make me incriminate myself.
Report Post »I have nothing to hide. What I state is not classified info, and if it is, I found all this on the internet so I would not be liable for nefarious and clandestine actions. The “government” (actually a Corporation) would be negligent and responsible for their own incompetence.
Stating LIVE FREE or DIE does not imply I am a Threat, only that I will defend Myself using my 2nd Amendment right. Us “REAL” Americans will also use their 1st Amenment Rights.
Those are ‘Inalienable’. That Means that no moron can “interpret” it.
I do not acknowledge a corporation. I do NOT acknowledge a BANK that represents itself as my ‘Government”.
I remember you troll, you used that “real” Americans reference before.
Come get me, CLOWN !!!!!
Like I said…… better bring 24
lol. see ya in #ell.
ElPzee
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:52pmCronie capitalism at is finest.
Report Post »Pontiac
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:00pmNo, more like mob extortion.
Report Post »richard the lion-hearted
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 9:52pmThere is nothing ‘capitalist’ about unions, it’s favoritism (monopolized) and forced political donations to a marxist/ socialist/ communist ideal to entrench their own power along with the elites.
Report Post »tmplarnite
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:52pmCriminals from the White house down…………..
Report Post »beverlee
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:51pmUnions, just like healthcare…you will be forced to join.
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:59pmLoss of freedom is amost complete for these ppl.
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 11:31amThey are definitley doubling down……it’s going to get worse before the election…
Report Post »SageInWaiting
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:48pmInclude our date of birth and SSN; then the unions can take our identities and do whatever they want… and bill our bank accounts directly for “services rendered.” Bend over, folks… ASSUME THE POSITION!
Report Post »Nanaswords
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:48pmThe Operative phrase here, day after new elected President…To the NLRB….“YOUR FIRED”
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:44pmThis week on Undercover Union Boss,watch how 2 guys that refuse to join the union are beaten and left in a road-side ditch…Join the locust-army..Don’t be beaten and left in a road-side ditch.
Report Post »richard the lion-hearted
Posted on January 29, 2012 at 9:56pmI love that commercial, appeals to my sense of humor…
Report Post »Nanaswords
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:44pmMore ‘quickie” regulations by the W.H. and the staffers(Czars) ! Actions prove more than words spoken…words in writings to set-in “garbage from garbage producers ! Not a bit surprised…trying to tighten the rope before election time. See the pattern from the front of the blanket now…unless you choose not to ! Or you love the nwo plan ! Not that many of you here in the USA ..just keep on planning,,,,,It hasn’t worked in our past history…it will Not work in our current/future history !!!
Report Post »John Kettlewell
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:41pmBusinesses can just ignore it like all other ‘rules and regs’ not passed by Congress as it is would not be unlawful. Delegation is unconstitutional as it is unrepresentative as well as not Necessary and Proper. Otherwise Congress becomes an HR department and we have a government of committees…otherwise known as technocracy.
Report Post »OlefromMN
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 11:55pmYou know that does work. I was involved in a non-union shop in MN that was being “salted”. (salting is planting union members into a company that are unknown and are trying to recruit enough support to “organize” the shop). We picked out the salt right away and knew how to handle him, he was gone in two days. Then I got a call from the union asking for full disclosure of all employee payroll records (this was in 1997). It told them to pound sand in as clear of language.
Never heard from them again. Stand up for your rights and you will not have a problem. Remember most of these people that push BS like this have never been confronted in their lives. They are just schoolyard bullies.
They’re gonna hate it when we start taking their “lunch money”.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:39pmOkay, a new federal agency on my cut list – time to run them out of town.
Report Post »Carlinpa
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:39pmWTF???!! How can a union have the right to personal information on demand on a company’s employees? This liberal/communist government intimidation by proxy of regulation needs to have a termination in the next administration!
Report Post »54smom
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:39pmAs a business owner its kind of scary. You can be sued if personal information is given to the wrong
Report Post »person. This sounds like no control to me. And the only one that can be sued would be the business.
Like how about if you don’t join us we just publish all your info….the world just got a whole lot creeepier.
COFemale
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:36pmThey try it one time with me, and I will file a lawsuit so fast their heads will spin.
That is invasion of privacy and when I worked at El Paso Natural Gas were were not allowed to pass any ones email accept the business email or the business phone number to other people.
Report Post »lketchum
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:33pmCommunist filth.
I’ll never comply.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:42pm“Contact information” .. so they can come to your home and make veiled threats (so you have no recourse with the police or other authorities)… once they have your contact information they can get to your children, parents, etc. These people are EVIL!
OMG .. Obama MUST go 2012
Report Post »bucklywheat
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:30pmI don‘t think it’ll happen. If it does it won’t be long befoer the union is running the country. They are almost doing that now.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:30pmOH GOODY!! MORE intimidation from Obama and his UNION THUGS! errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:42pmDon’t u know a skinny guy has got 2 get someone 2 fight his fight ?
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 10:59amHey Sir, get a fricking education and learn how to spell real words you texting monkey idiot.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:30pmThis Union member is TOTALLY against this crap!!! Wish we DID NOT have national union organizations……keep it local and it is just fine!!!
Report Post »TexOkie
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:29pmThese people are so evil.
Report Post »lodgerat
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:27pmI posted earlier today on another story, why aren’t the Repubs doing anything to stop this commie crap?
Report Post »DanielBurke
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 8:28amThat‘s what I’d like to know!
Report Post »demokrathundscheisse
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 1:39pmBecause it‘s the same ol’ same ol’. You know, like my name…….
Report Post »South Philly Boy
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:22pmCommunist
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:35pmPrivate Investigator says Beck Staff Threatened by Soros Operatives;News Corporation Failed to Protect Employees, Forcing Beck’s Ouster
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JANUARY 27, 2012
Cliff Kincaid, president of America’s Survival, Inc. (ASI), a public policy organization, is leading a “Bring Back Beck” campaign to return Glenn Beck to the Fox News Channel, where he had a popular program devoted to analyzing current and future events, including the role of hedge fund billionaire George Soros, in the American political environment. Kincaid has produced several articles examining the role of Soros-funded groups in forcing Beck’s departure from the channel last year. Kincaid recently learned of a private investigator, Douglas J. Hagmann, with information that the Soros role in Beck’s ouster was deeper and more insidious than previously realized. In order to further the public’s right to know as to how the First Amendment right of freedom of the press is being manipulated and subverted by covert forces in U.S. politics, Kincaid asked Hagmann, who is the CEO of Hagmann Investigative Services, Inc., and director of the Northeast Intelligence Network for permission to pass on this information. He has agreed, as long as the identities of the sources of information are deleted. There are several sources with information about strange goings-on at News Corporation in regard to the Glenn Beck matter…http://sorosfiles.com/soros/2012/01/glenn-beck-staff-threatened-by-soros-op
Report Post »sclasson
Posted on January 28, 2012 at 1:57pmthese little boys don’t have the BALLS to come get this info…..
SI VIS PACEM,PARA BELLUM………………….
Report Post »Razorhunters
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:21pmexpect anything else…?
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=i8edTjSx1nM#t=19s
The-Monk
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:27pm@Razorhunters
“expect anything else…?”
Yes, I expect the NRLB to force employers to hand over the info of every employee that ever worked them. Ever! He11, why doesn’t the NRLB just force the IRS to give them that info also?
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:29pmOpps! NLRB….
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:18pmWow! I guees it‘s good that I’m unemployed. No boss to hand over my info to union thugs.
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:17pmDoes this mean I have 2 join 1 now?
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 10:16pmWhat a bunch of commies. Close down the NLRB. DE-FUND THEM.
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