Amusing: SEIU Busted For “Unfair Labor Practice” Against Employee

The purple army has been busted for violating an employee's labor rights...

Via WFB:

The NLRB’s three-Democrat panel of board members declared SEIU Healthcare Michigan violated the labor rights of a member of its union staff on Friday.

The intra-union fighting stemmed from SEIU’s refusal to hand over discharge grievance files to former employee Sara Vitale, a violation of the National Labor Relations Act.

The NLRB’s Detroit office ordered the union to turn over the requested files in August. SEIU officials ignored the request, leading to an appeal to the NLRB.

“Since about Dec. 21, 2011, and continuing to date, the [union] has failed and refused to provide [Vitale] with a copy of the requested file,” the NLRB ruled. “[SEIU] has breached its duty of fair representation owed to … the employees in the unit.”

The board ordered SEIU to “cease and desist” from its “unfair labor practice” and to post notices of the violation around its office.

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Obvious: Obama's unconstitutional Labor Board appointees to ignore court ruling and Constitution...

Would you expect anything different from an Obama appointee? 

Via Washington Examiner:

Mark Gaston Pearce, chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, issued the following statement in reaction to today’s DC Appeals Court decision that President Obama use of recess appointments to install three people on the NLRB last year was unconstitutional. The action renders the board without a quorum to act and potentially invalidates a year’s worth of actions and rulings by it. [...]

Pearce, in short, is indicating that the NLRB’s strategy is to act as if the court’s ruling that the appointments were unconstitutional somehow only applies only to the particular case that went before the Appeals Court and hope that the White House can get the Supreme Court to quickly review the case.

Surprise: Richard Trumka disagrees with court ruling overturning Obama pro-union Labor Board recess appointments...

Get over it dude...

Strongly disagree with reasoning and shocking decision today by the panel of Republican judges on the DC Circuit
— Richard L. Trumka (@RichardTrumka) January 25, 2013

Appeals Court unanimously rules Obama recess Labor board appointments unconstitutional...

Obama really stepped in it this time. This has far-reaching consequences...

In a case freighted with major constitutional implications, a federal appeals court on Friday overturned President Obama’s controversial recess appointments from last year, ruling he abused his powers and acted when the Senate was not actually in a recess.

The three-judge panel’s ruling is a major blow to Mr. Obama. The judges ruled that the appointments he made to the National Labor Relations Board are illegal, and hence the five-person board did not have a quorum to operate.

But the ruling has even broader constitutional significance, with the judges arguing that the president’s recess appointment powers don’t apply to “intra-session” appointments — those made when Congress has left town for a few days or weeks. They said Mr. Obama erred when he said he could claim the power to determine when he could make appointments.

“Allowing the president to define the scope of his own appointments power would eviscerate the Constitution’s separation of powers,” the judges said in their opinion.