the national labor relations board came out with rules that will make the elections fair and faster. it will get rid of some of the -- some of the delays that employers have used for years and union buster is used for years. they did not want any changes in labor laws. they liked the broken system that was in favor of employer is. >> so that is no longer a priority? >> it is still a priority because it is good for the country. and collective bargaining is important because our economy is 72% driven by consumer spending. consumers cannot spend or create demand if they don't have money in their pockets. the link between productivity and wages is broken. not enough people have collected bargaining. all the money that used to get shared with workers now goes to the top 1% who only buy one local bratton said many. they might only by one car or in the case of mitt romney, several cars. it is creating demand. collective bargaining as part of a solution. its workers get a chance to get more of the well they produce, they will have more money to create demand and that demand will help create

once the authorization cards are turned in, then the national labor relations board, which was the federalgency set up by congress in the national labor relations act, will then require that an election be held. >> the nlrb will then verify the election results and declare whether a collective bargaining agent has been selected or not and if so, if there are several unions vying for this collective bargaining agent position, they will designate which one of the competing unions has prevailed as the selected bargaining agent for the employees. [narrator] >> in addition to governing the union organizing process, the law also identifies unfair labor tactics. for example, management is prohibited from interfering with the right of employees to form or join a labor union. management is also not permitted to discriminate against union organizers or union members. >> management can't terminate someone because they have chosen to join a union, and management cannot refuse to promote, or in any way compensate someone because they've joined a union or decided to go along with the authorization card.

arthur mentioned the battle with the national labor relations board, and it is a stunning story. a story that has a good ending, but i think it would be helpful if you could talk about that fight that you have to age. >> coming into the governorship, i knew that we had to talk about budget issues and reform government. what i never knew is that the hardest part of my job would be the federal government. we passed illegal immigration reform and the department of justice stopped it. we passed the voter id bill that said you have to show a picture id to buy sudafed, if you have to do so to get on a plane, you should have two to vote. we passed the voter id bill. the department of justice stopped us now we are getting ready in the next couple of weeks that says if you're going to get unemployment benefits, you have to pass a drug test. i am expecting a fight there. what i've never thought i'd see as most un-american thing, which is this great american company, boeing, they said were going to put a plant in south carolina. they created a thousand new jobs in south carolina. at the sam

law tilted the balance heavily against organizing tilt that balance back get back to the national labor relations board doing the job it's supposed to do which is to protect the rights of workers to organize you might be surprised at how quickly at least a significant amount of unionization would come back to this country i'm curious your thoughts on coal worker on cooperate is there more people working in work or on cooperate in the united states now than there are union members is that a direction that we should be pushing. if it works i mean that there are. that's a long discussion it's not a universal solution you don't want to you know work around co-operative owning an oil refinery would be a bit of a problem because that's an awful lot of capital and by only a few people but sure i mean i think we actually what we need we actually need is an economy that has multiple bottles we need to have unionized firms that we can see what that we can we need to have right now we've become a kind of a monoculture of ruthless ruthless corporations as the only way we do business and by all means let's have let

could mean discipline over a lost job now there's a clear road map for rulings from the national labor relations board outlining what is protected speech when it comes to social media and experts say it applies to all private companies employees want to talk about i don't think i'm getting paid for my benefits are very good or i've got a really mean manager that treats people you know unfairly those types of things are protected. now of course there are restrictions on where the posting occurs and what sort of language you use in other words workers can legally be fired for dropping facebook f. bombs on their bosses while the clock so now it's time for final question the rules governing public sector employees are slightly different people might expect that public servants like firefighters teachers federal workers to keep a tight lid on what they share on the internet especially when dealing with edgy or controversial material but as a public sector employee can you be fired for posting something edgy when not it's posted outside of office hours in a personal capacity two thousand and six supreme cou

well they get can be replaced if it's considered an economic strike by the national labor relations board although they filed their claim it's an unfair labor practice trade in that the company's engaged in bad faith bargaining as well as a couple of other illegal categories of bargaining so if they can claim it's an unfair labor practice they can be replaced if it's an economic strike they can be replaced but in this kind of situation. the workers are are pretty tough to replace when it will be tough to do that how does the syllabus does lock it have a nationwide i mean employed tens of thousands of workers i don't know exactly how many is the only one with the fighter jets that they're making and they also do some work on their sixteen. and so you know looking at all these different labor disputes in the past is this this is just seems like an ongoing struggle that's just getting worse in times of economic recession more and more labor strikes more an austerity cut more more cuts for the middle class and really taking the brunt out on the middle class america you know what i mean what w

also received a complaint from an independent agency that was allied with the labor department, national labor relations board, my exexecutive assistant had become deputy counsel, john irving, and he told me with white house pressure on lrb cases and i told john to ignore it. so i came to have a profound distrust and distaste for colston's methodology and generally instructed people in the department to ignore anything that came from him. as a matter of fact, years later when i was being nominated to deputy attorney general and i was looking through papers in my basement, to find a particular document, my wife and i came across a historical document that was in my files that i never even noticed, and it was a recommendation, a personnel recommendation, from the white house. but attached to it was a little sheet of paper from colston to the individual who had sent the document to my office, and the little piece of paper said for god sake don't tell silberman this came from me or he'll kill it. and nobody ever noticed. so, we continued -- we continued to clash. >> well, let's talk about the most important clash

we take the labor stooges out of the national labor relations boa board. throe is to have tax policies oop oom that encourage small business. i'll bring the tax down to 28% to encourage businesses to grow and invest and hire people here in this country. and finally one more. with regards to health care, you see, old-school liberals believe anytime there's a problem government can step in and run things better than can free people and free enterprises. they're wrong preponderance of the evidence. and obama care is one of the dreams of liberals. one of the first things i'll do is repeal and replace obama care and return health care to our citizens. i happen to believe if we put in place p policies i've described you'll see a resurgence of manufacturing in this country, that enterprises that sent jobs overseas in the past will start bringing jobs back home. i don't have a pessimistic view about the future of america. i believe in america. i believe in the entrepreneurial innovative spirit of the american people. i believe in the productivity of the american wo

recently the court twice has thrown out rulings on the national labor relation board, one on ambush elections and on the posting rule where employers were asked to post proorganization posters within their break room and their companies. both time the courts said nlrb reached too far. it is my hope the same thing would happen here again, but in the meantime i want to encourage the senate to allow us to bring senate 1843 to the floor and make this debate. in the free enterprise system, in the tedious economy we have today in this country, the last thing we need is to begin changing labor law and pitting organized labor against management in an adversarial type of way. this example at bergdorf goodman is an example of the national labor relations board doing in regulation what we ought to be doing in legislation on the floor of the senate. my biggest concern is it seems like the administration's leadership in every department determined if we can circumvent and through regulation do what we can't do on the floor, we'll forget about the house, forget about the senate. it will be the executive an

the bacteria. >>> national labor relations board member terrance flynn has submitted his resignation. n came under fire after it was found that he was leaking documents. according to the nlrb inspector general report, flynn, while serving as chief counsel, released nonpublic information to peter shumbauer who resigned his position as an adviser to the romney campaign last month. flynn has denied any wrongdoing. >>> an army spokesman says sudan will move its troops from the disputed region at the border. the move comes the day before sudan and south sudan officials meet in hopes of setting up a framework for a new peace work. an adviser to the enough project tells outfront the one thing compelling both sides to talk is the economy. he says the economy in both countries is in crisis. now, it has been 298 days since the u.s. lost its top credit rating. what are we doing to get it back? >>> our fourth story outfront tonight is key to whether we get that top credit rating back. now, the house returns from break this week and republicans are already talking about their summer wish list. a to

the policy different, so part one will be on energy on a different approach. part number two is making sure we have a level playing field between labor and management and take them out of the national labor relations board and number three is to have tax policies that encourage small business so rather than raising the tax on small business from 35 to 40% i will bring it down to 28% to encourage this does is to go and invest and hire people here in this country. [applause] finally, one more. with regards to health care, the old school liberals believe any time there's a problem government can step in and run things better than people in free enterprise is they are wrong. one of the first things i will do if i become president is to repeal and replace obamacare. [applause] i believe if we put in place the policies of described you're going to see a resurgence of manufacturing in this country. enterprises that send jobs overseas in the past are going to start bringing jobs back home. i don't have a pessimistic view about the future of america. i believe in america. i believe in an entrepreneurial innovative spirit of the american people. i believe in the productivity of the american workforce. i believe t

guest: the national labor relations board just approved last week a request to organize the shoe department in bergdorf goodman. just the shoe department, not linens, not lingerie, not outdoor goods, nothing, just shoes. if we go to the principal and start organizing companies in micro unions, you haven't inability to -- you have an inability to cross workers in stores. if they want to organize, organize the entire store. let everybody vote. but you cannot put them in a situation where they have to respond to just the shoe department when the rest of the company is not organized. this is a huge threat to retail and large distribution. it is a reach way too far and it breaks 80 years of federal law between labor and management. host: marjah calling from atlanta. i think we lost her. let's go on to our next call. this is robert, independent in houston. caller: good morning. i am independent but i have been leaning toward voting for mitt romney. but he kind of scares me because just like you were saying you signed for the tarp money on the first round and you also signed a bill about fannie ma

labor unions have used the political process to expand. in order to curb the recent -- the taxpayer funded voice for labor, the national labor relations board have enacted over the time union-friendly policies simply because right to work states like south carolina allow employees to decide for themselves whether or not they wish to join labor unions. the nlrb's latest attempt involves suing two states, arizona and south dakota. and intimidating several other states because they protect the secret ballot prosest in union labor elections. 80% of south karolinaans voted 80% to -- carolinaians voted 80%. these are the protections that nlrb bureaucrats are attacking today. this is not only an attack on our states' rights but also on the secret ballot election process that allows workers to vote their conscience without fear of union retaliation. my amendment does not eliminate the nlrb or strip away all of their funding. even though they probably deserve exactly that after two years of abusing businesses, including boeing in my home state. rather, my amendment simply protects the states whose citizens have spoken on this issue by stopping the n

. >> [inaudible] republican member of the national labor relations board with allegations. e power to remove that person? >> he is in contact with my office on this. i do not have an answer for you right now. >> i have another question about chen. the state department is handling the question of chen. will you address whether the president has weighed in yet on what he thinks should happen or whether he is just getting updates from the state and is waiting for a full recommendation from the state before he makes his decision? >> the state department handles issues of political asylum if that is an issue here. second, i will not give the play-by-play of the president's internal deliberations within the administration or the white house specifically. so i do not have anything beyond the fact that the president has been briefed on this and kept updated about developments. >> the procedure for asylum in such a high-profile case -- >> i am saying questions about political asylum are not appropriately addressed from the white house. they are handled at the state department. i woul

party is doing anything about solving but what's happening regulatory, with the snang commission, national labor relation boardsay women are 50% of the population. it's not a war on women but there are two sides here trying to distract us. >> which issue, the contraception issue? >> for instance, i was enormously disappointed with mitt romney when during the tea party debate you had the question in the soldier in uniform overseas and they booed him. he had a home degree kr style. he is putting his life on the line for you. when rush limbaugh called a woman a slut. well, it's not the language i would have used. where are we going in the future? what is he really going to do about the economy. medicare/medicaid. what would be your issue with president obama's economic policy or do you have a different point of view? >> i'm a little troubled by the size increase in the defense. i'm all for a very strong national defense, but even the defense department has said that they could do with less and he's talking about attaching it to the cost of living and watching what happens. it would be an enormous increase in spen

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doubl doesn't want to talk about the fact that this kind of deficit, this kind of spending is scaring away job creators. so i'll mention more. his national labor relations boardlt for small businesses to dedecide to hire d grow. these are new problems we have that have been created by president obama. they need new solutions if we're going to get this economy going. with regards to bain capital, they just put a report out about their record, the bain capital guys did. they noted they made about 350 investments since the beginning of the firm and of those investments, 80% of them grew their revenues. so i'm pretty confident that the overall record of the enterprise i helped begin is one that's pretty solid. >> brian: five supporters, prominent democrats have come forward and said they're not comfortable with the bain attacks. in the same speech, he talked about a woman in iowa who came up to you and talked to about a financial struggles and you told her, productivity equals income. and he interpreted that as saying, you're not working hard enough and shows how detached you are. what's your reaction to that definition of your interaction? >> well, i'm afraid he