Today, in the Knoxville News Biz page, Tea Party GOPer (Dr.) Scott DesJarlais, weighed in on management's side. DesJarlais is a freshman Congressman assigned to Issa's government oversight committee and seems to hold the same sharp knife.
The article, titled U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais bill would repeal NLRB rule, describes his belief that the NLRB's recently announced rule requiring employers to post a notice describing employees' rights proves that the Board is a front for the union movement. He said:
It is unacceptable for the NLRB to force businesses to display posters that serve as nothing more than a de facto endorsement of unionization by the federal government ... [The rule [is] an] arbitrary mandate and ...another favor for big labor made possible by their friends in the Obama administration...If employers want to distribute information on the ways employees can unionize, then that should be their choice — not Washington bureaucrats.
The rule, of course, does nothing of the sort. It simply recites the rights of employees to seek representation if they so choose...and decline if they choose that route. Either way, the NLRB is simply requiring employers to post a notice of rights--just as states require employers to post notices about minimum wage rights, industrial injury rights and the right to file OSHA claims.
What is DesJarlais' purpose? Why, to keep employees from knowing and their rights. Ignorant employees are less likely to exercise rights they don't know about. If they don't exercise them, then those rights may become lost. This scenario inures to the benefit of Management allowing it to avoid being obligated to actually treat their employees fairly or provide them with a fairly negotiated income.
DesJarlais should be called out for bedding down with Issa and for treating employees like so much chattel. Remember, keeping slaves and freed Negroes ignorant was designed to keep the African-American populace from resisting. Today's Tennessee folks should be all over his website and his office protesting this ante bellum tactic. [He probably won't pay too much attention to non-constituents.] Here's his website. Use the Contact Me button to register your feelings.