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NLRB To Force Companies To Turn Over Employee Telephone Numbers & E-Mail Addresses To Unions?

NLRB To Force Companies To Turn Over Employee Telephone Numbers & E-Mail Addresses To Unions?

Union-backed NLRB Chairman: "We keep our eye on the prize."

Posted by LaborUnionReport (Diary)

Thursday, January 26th at 8:30PM EST
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Undaunted by the constitutionally-questionable appointment of three members to Barack Obama’s National Labor Relations Board, union attorney and current NLRB chairman Mark Pearce declared in an Associated Press interview that he and his union comrades are continuing their assault on the 93% of private-sector employees who are union-free.

In fact, if Obama’s union appointees have their way, all employees who are targeted for unionization will have their employers forced to turn over their home telephone number and e-mail addresses to unions.

Ever since the 1960s, when unions have targeted companies for unionization through a NLRB-supervised election, employers have been required to turn over the list of employee names and their home addresses. The NLRB, in turn, promptly gives the list of employee names and home addresses to the involved union(s).

This list, called an Excelsior List, gives union organizers the ability to conduct intrusive home visits prior to the NLRB election. As is often said, just as when any other salesperson doing door-to-door sales knocks at the door, targeted employees can invite the union organizers into their homes, or they can sic the chihuahua on them.

The requirement to furnish the employees’ names and addresses list is mandatory. In fact, the refusal by an employer to furnish the list (or providing a list with too many errors) would typically result in the NLRB’s automatic overturning of an election if a union were to lose. Again, this requirement has been the standard since the 1960s.

Now, however, the union appointees within the Obama NLRB want to expand the current Excelsior List requirement from the mere furnishing of names and addresses to also include furnishing employees’ home telephone numbers and their e-mail addresses to enable unions to perpetually propagandize employees.

Related: The Truth About False Union Promises.

According to the AP report: