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SENATE HELP COMMITTEE TO ACT ON BECKER
NOMINATION TO NLRB
BECKER IS PRO-UNION AND
ANTI-EMPLOYER
SUPERMARKET INDUSTRY MUST OPPOSE
BECKER
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The Senate
Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP),
chaired by Tom Harkin (D-IA), will hold a hearing Tuesday,
February 2nd, on the nomination of Craig Becker to
the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). On Thursday, February
4th, full Committee consideration of Becker's
nomination is scheduled.
Craig Becker, the Associate General Counsel of the
Service Employees International Union (SEIU), if confirmed,
would serve a five-year term on the NLRB.
It is anticipated
that the HELP Committee will once again approve Becker's
nomination which will set the stage for a showdown on the Senate
floor. One or more
"holds" will be placed on the nomination which means proponents
of Becker will need to round up 60 votes in order to force a
vote on the nominee.
FMI sees the
Becker nomination as a backdoor approach for implementing
provisions of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) without
Congress enacting a new law. Craig Becker's record speaks for
itself. Based on
his extensive writings over the years in various law review
articles, Becker has made it clear that he advocates rewriting
current union-election rules in favor of organized labor. Becker views and
writings are well outside the mainstream and would disrupt years of established
precedent and the delicate balance in current labor law. Becker
is blatantly pro-labor and anti-employer.
FMI urges the
membership to contact your Senators in opposition to the
nomination of Craig Becker to the NLRB. Key Senators are as
follows: Michael
Bennet (D-CO), Olympia Snowe (R-ME), Susan Collins (R-ME),
George Voinovich (R-OH), Ben Nelson (D-NE), Mark Pryor (D-AR),
Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Evan Bayh (D-IN), Kay Hagan (D-NC), Jim
Webb (D-VA), and Mark Warner (D-VA). In addition, Mike Enzi (R-WY) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
are also critical since both of them voted in favor of the
Becker nomination in Committee last year. FMI is on record in
opposition to Becker.
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