Obama the Posterizer

Just when it looked like employers were getting less fearful about what President Obama might do next to worsen the business climate, the National Labor Relations Board (now with its first Democratic majority in a decade, thanks to Obama’s appointees) announced on December 14 that private employers will be required to display pro-unionizing posters in their businesses under a newly proposed federal rule.
“The planned rule,” reported the Associated Press, “would require businesses to post notices in employee break rooms or other prominent locations to explain workers’ rights to bargain collectively, distribute union literature or engage in other union activities without reprisal.”
The posters don’t explain that the largest reprisal against collectivized labor and unionism comes from the public by way of lower sales — and then fewer jobs — when prices of products and services are hiked in order to pay for the escalating costs of higher wages, benefits and pensions.
In the U.S. auto industry, for instance, unionized factory workers have paid a steep price for the public’s reprisal against over-compensated employees and subsequently over-priced cars. During decades when both the U.S. population and the domestic car market were significantly expanding, active membership in the United Auto Workers (UAW) dropped from 1.5 million in the late 1970s to 390,000 in 2010.
General Motors, losing two-thirds of its U.S. market share, falling from nearly 60 percent in 1970 to its current 20 percent, now employs 52,000 hourly workers in the United States, down 89 percent from its 468,000 hourly employees in 1970.
Allowing the UAW “to ramp up costs ad infinitum” put GM at “a major cost disadvantage,” states Martin Hutchinson, contributing editor of Money Morning. “The arrival and establishment of foreign-owned manufacturers in America’s less-unionized states – combined with the inexorable aging of GM’s former and current work force — shackled GM with an impossible cost disadvantage against its competitors.”
Reports financial analyst James Quinn at seekingalpha.com, a stock research and investment website: “The last major strike by the UAW occurred in 1970. After that, management continually gave in to the union demands in all future contract negotiations. They promised tremendous pension benefits, lifetime healthcare benefits, huge pay increases, and onerous work rules that gave management no flexibility. GM evidently didn’t have the bean counters who could extrapolate past a five-year horizon. If they had, they would have seen that they would have an unsustainable cost structure with more retirees being paid than workers on the assembly line.”
As GM workers increasingly became unemployed, the jobless were relocated from the assembly lines to a “jobs bank” at a cost to GM of $130,000 a year in pay and benefits per worker — or more precisely, per non-worker.
READ MORE: http://spectator.org/archives/2011/01/03/obama-the-posterizer

Federal Labor Law Posters
All businesses are required to post federal labor law posters in a workplace common area frequented by employees and applicants. The posting requirement for each individual federal labor law poster is required by the Federal government. Failure to abide by posting requirements places an employer at risk, and may lead to employee disputes among other complications, including costly fines and penalties.

It is highly recommended to post the federal laws in a Spanish version if 10% or more of your workforce speaks Spanish as a primary language. In some states, it’s a mandatory requirement. For your convenience, we provide two poster options to help satisfy your federal posting requirements. These include: Our Federal Labor Law Poster, which is available in English or Spanish, and our Bilingual Federal Labor Law Poster, which includes postings in both English and Spanish.
In addition to the federal labor law posting requirements, federal contractors and their subcontractors have separate posting requirements that must be met as well. To offer a convenient option for contractors and subcontractors of the federal government, we combined the most highly required postings on our Federal Contractors Edition Poster or our Customizable Federal Contractor Poster. This poster is also available in both English and Spanish. http://www.laborlawcenter.com/c-4-federal-labor-law-posters.aspx?gclid=CL33y9-On6YCFQQ65Qodh3R_pA

Federal Labor Law Poster

Includes NEW EEOC GINA Regulation
Includes ALL mandatory federal requirements
Single poster available in English or Spanish
High-quality laminated poster, size 20″ x 26″
Our Price – $9.95

Federal Contractors Edition Poster

Includes NEW Employee Notification Requirements for Federal Contractors and Subcontractors
Includes ALL mandatory federal contractor’s posters (*Depending on specific projects/contractors, additional posters may be required)
Single poster available in English or Spanish
High-quality laminated poster, size 20″ x 26″
Our Price – $9.95

Customizable Federal Contractor Poster

Includes NEW Employee Notification Requirements for Federal Contractors and Subcontractors
Has two 8 1/2″ x 11″ laminated pouched for you to insert any company policy or poster next to the mandatory labor law posters!
Includes ALL mandatory federal contractor’s posters (*Depending on specific projects/contractors, additional posters may be required)
Single poster available in English or Spanish
High-quality laminated poster, size 30″ x 26″
Our Price – $19.95