{"id":12832,"date":"2012-01-27T14:10:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T19:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12832"},"modified":"2012-01-27T14:35:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T19:35:51","slug":"union-membership-falls-to-new-low-nlrb-to-seek-employees-private-phone-numbers-and-email-addresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12832\/union-membership-falls-to-new-low-nlrb-to-seek-employees-private-phone-numbers-and-email-addresses\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Membership Falls to New Low, NLRB to Compel Employees&#8217; Private Phone Numbers and Email Addresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Department of Labor <a href=\"http:\/\/bls.gov\/news.release\/union2.nr0.htm\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> that the 2011 union membership rate fell to a new record low of 11.8%.\u00a0\u00a0 Disturbingly, the rate among public-sector workers now stands at 37%, whereas the membership rate for private-sector employees stands at a historic low of just 6.9%.<\/p>\n<p>Now, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) chairman Mark Pearce has announced that Obama&#8217;s NLRB will push for new rules forcing employers to turn over lists of employees&#8217; private <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fieldandstream.com\/forums\/guns\/whats-it-worth\/nlrb-force-companies-turn-over-employee-telephone-numbers-e-mail-addresse\" target=\"_blank\">phone numbers and email addresses<\/a> in a shameless attempt to assist Big Labor in its desperate organizing activities.\u00a0 After all, unless labor leaders can wrench more dollars from employees&#8217; paychecks, they won&#8217;t have as much to spend on Obama&#8217;s reelection campaign.\u00a0 Meanwhile, the government also announced today that the U.S. economy only grew a <a href=\"http:\/\/bea.gov\/iTable\/index_nipa.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">lackluster 2.8%<\/a> in the fourth quarter of 2011.\u00a0 That illustrates once again that Obama&#8217;s policies aren&#8217;t helping the economy, they&#8217;re subduing what should by now be a much sharper recovery.<\/p>\n<p>As we have <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/1269-poll-by-2-to-1-americans-fear-second-obama-term\" target=\"_blank\">observed<\/a>, if the Obama Administration behaves this thuggishly during an election year, just imagine how heedlessly it would behave during a second term when it needn&#8217;t worry about reelection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Department of Labor announced that the 2011 union membership rate fell to a new record low of 11.8%.\u00a0\u00a0 Disturbingly, the rate among public-sector workers now stands at 37%, whereas the membership rate for private-sector employees stands at a historic low of just 6.9%. Now, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) chairman Mark Pearce has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[911,19,1004,1186,833,3309],"class_list":["post-12832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-big-labor","tag-economy","tag-gdp","tag-labor","tag-nlrb","tag-union-membership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12832"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12836,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12832\/revisions\/12836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}