NILRR Newsclips 07 29 2011
Unions Launch Debt Ceiling Ad War on GOP
Wall Street Journal Online, 7/29/2011
The ad buy, which falls in the “low six-figures†according
a group spokesman, will run Friday through Monday on local networks against Sen.
Dean Heller (R., Nev.), Majority Leader Eric Cantor and six House Republicans,
some of whom are top targets for Democrats in 2012.
Come Fly the Union Skies
WSJ Online, 7/29/2011
Mr. LaHood also invoked the plight of the 4,000 FAA
employees and 70,000 construction workers. But someone should ask him why he and
the White House are willing to let those workers hang while they do another
favor for organized labor.
The White House vs. Boeing
Wall Street Journal Online, 7/28/2011
In a formal statement of Administration policy, the White
House opposed a bill sponsored by South Carolina Rep. Tim Scott that would
reduce the power of the NLRB and prohibit it “from ordering any employer to
relocate, shut down, or transfer employment under any circumstance.”
Translation: Mr. Obama intends to guard the NLRB for his union allies, but if no
one notices, all the better.
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