Sept. 20, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government (ALG) today releaseda poll conducted by the polling company™, inc./WomanTrend showing 64 percent of registered voters favor candidates that support removing the quasi-judicial powers from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

“The results show that the more voters find out about the NLRB, and its powers to act as prosecutor, judge and jury against private companies at the behest of big labor, the more they oppose it,” ALG President Bill Wilson said.

Substantial majorities believe that the agency, founded in 1935, is antiquated (62 percent), has too much power “to officiate legal proceedings over private U.S. companies in its own court system” (66 percent) and to play “the roles of investigator, prosecutor, and judge in each of the cases that come before it” (63 percent), and opposed the Board’s “power to dictate where, that is in which states, companies can locate their places of work or production facilities” (72 percent).

The NLRB has come under increasing scrutiny due to its decision barring Boeing from setting up a manufacturing facility in South Carolina, a right-to-work state, but Wilson said the agency’s history of abuses went back to its inception.

Those include the controversial NLRB v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. (1939) decision that a company could not fire workers that staged sit-down strikes, and the BE & K Construction Co. v. NLRB (2002) decision that a company could not sue a union that was attempting to organize its employees, as noted in a recent Investor’s Business Daily oped by Rep. Austin Scott (R-GA).

Both decisions had to be overturned by the Supreme Court.

Rep. Scott is expected to unveil legislation today that will rein in the agency’s quasi-judicial powers, a bill that Wilson called “the most comprehensive effort in 75 years to rein in the one-sided decisions of an agency singularly designed to issue rulings in favor of labor unions.”

Attachments:

the polling company™, inc./WomanTrend poll on behalf of Americans for Limited Government regarding National Labor Relations Board, Aug. 19-23, 2011 at www.getliberty.org/files/NLRBPoll8-19to8-23-11.pdf.

Interview Availability: Please contact Rebekah Rast at (703) 383-0880 or at rrast@getliberty.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.

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Sept. 19, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson issued the following statement urging Congress to reject a White House proposal to increase taxes by $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years:

“It is ironic that the Obama Administration chalked up his proposals to being simple math when the outcome of raising taxes on job creators will be fewer jobs. That’s the real math.

“During the longest period of sustained high unemployment since the Great Depression, Congress must resist policies that are designed to take more from the private sector. We should be lowering the cost of doing business in the U.S. so we can compete with overseas companies, not increasing it. Raising taxes by over a trillion dollars is a jobs killer.

“If Obama wants to reduce the deficit he should try cutting spending, and if he wants to help the economy create jobs, he should try cutting taxes. And by cuts, we mean real cuts in spending, not reductions in the growth of spending, and not counting reductions in war spending that has never been committed to. Actual government programs should be eliminated.”

Interview Availability: Please contact Rebekah Rast at (703) 383-0880 or at rrast@getliberty.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.

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Sept. 15, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today praised House passage of a bill by Rep. Tim Scott (R-SC) that would prohibit the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from forcing an employer to relocate, shut down or transfer employment under any circumstance:

“The House of Representatives took a good first step today in beginning to address the arrogant, political, overreaching behavior of the NLRB. While Rep. Tim Scott’s bill addresses a symptom of the agency’s history of political favoritism, Congress now needs to address this rogue agency in a more comprehensive manner that cuts to the heart of their misuse of power, abolishing the Board’s quasi-judicial powers allowing it to serve as prosecutor, judge and jury in favor of big labor in the first place.”

Interview Availability: Please contact Rebekah Rast at (703) 383-0880 or at rrast@getliberty.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.

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Sept. 12, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today urged House passage of a bill by Rep. Tim Scott (R-SC) that would prohibit the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from forcing an employer to relocate, shut down or transfer employment under any circumstance:

“The Obama Administration’s NLRB has gone too far as it attempts to block Boeing from setting up a non-union shop away from its Washington state base of operations. It cares more about protecting union jobs than creating new jobs. While millions of Americans struggle to find work in the Obama economy, the NLRB is busy making sure Boeing cannot create jobs in right-to-work South Carolina. A company should be allowed to choose which state it wants to build a factory in free of any governmental interference.

“Rep. Tim Scott is to be applauded for bringing forward legislation that will begin to counter the NLRB’s war on right-to-work states. This is a positive step, and we urge passage. But Congress needs to move past simply adopting stop-gap measures after the damage is already done. A comprehensive overhaul of our broken labor relations system is needed that will abolish the Board’s quasi-judicial powers allowing it to serve as prosecutor, judge, and jury in favor of big labor.”

Interview Availability: Please contact Rebekah Rast at (703) 383-0880 or at rrast@getliberty.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.

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September 7th, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today blasted Barack Obama’s pick for head of the Council of Economic Advisors, Alan Krueger:

“In light of his refusal to condemn the extremist remarks of Teamsters’ boss Jimmy Hoffa, promising to ‘take out’ the tea party, it is deeply disturbing that Barack Obama would nominate someone who has taken the radical position of advocating for the unionization of prisoners. Alan Krueger has even supported paying the minimum wage and overtime to prisoners. This is the man that is supposed to turn our broken economy around?”

Attachments:

“Crazy Krueger,” Americans for Limited Government Research Foundation, September 7th, 2011 atwww.getliberty.org/files/AlanKruegerUnionizePrisoners9-7-11.pdf .

Interview Availability: Please contact Rebekah Rast at (703) 383-0880 or at rrast@getliberty.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.

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Sept. 6, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today condemned Barack Obama for praising Teamsters head Jimmy Hoffa, who at an Obama campaign event in Detroit on Labor Day called on union faithful to “take these son-of-a-bitches out” to win the “war on workers” he said was led by the Tea Party:

“President Barack Obama owes an immediate apology to every hard working American and each member of Congress who supports the Tea Party movement for his affirmation of Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa’s call to violence against his opponents at Obama’s Detroit Labor Day rally. If ever there was doubt that Obama is more comfortable with a megaphone and teleprompter than as the leader of the free world, yesterday ended it.

“If Obama fails to apologize for this call to violence against members of Congress and others who don’t agree with his radical policies, Speaker John Boehner should rescind his invitation to speak in the House of Representatives. In the wake of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting, Hoffa’s rhetoric is unconscionable, but Obama’s praising of it shows that he has never risen above his radical community organizer roots.”

Interview Availability: Please contact Rebekah Rast at (703) 383-0880 or at rrast@getliberty.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.

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September 2, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson responded to the just-released August unemployment numbers saying:

“Obama’s economy continues to fail to produce the private sector jobs to even meet the needs of new entrants in the economy, let alone those who are currently unemployed. What is stunning is that the economy created zero jobs in August. It is almost criminal that Obama continues to offer the same failed stimulus solutions that focus upon his radical agenda to change our economy from the most productive in the world to one where hope is replaced by despair and innovation is punished.”

Interview Availability: Please contact Rebekah Rast at (703) 383-0880 or at rrast@getliberty.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.

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September 1st, 2001, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today issued the following statement praising House Majority Leader Eric Cantor for proposing offsetting spending cuts for every dollar spent on disaster relief:

“Majority Leader Cantor is to be thanked for being the responsible adult in the room for suggesting that every dollar of disaster relief should be offset by a dollar of real spending cuts. Radical leftists like Virginia Organizing are charlatans who believe you can have everything all the time with no consequence.

“This is the danger of government’s unbridled spending spree, which is that when you really need to fulfill a core government function, like disaster relief, the government has already wasted all of its money on unnecessary spending. Just because a hurricane or an earthquake has hit, does not mean the nation’s fiscal situation has become any less dire. We still need to cut spending.

“Cantor is to be praised, but we also believe that for every dollar of disaster relief, there should be $2 of real, offsetting spending cuts — that should be taken out of the Departments of Labor, Commerce, and Housing and Urban Development. If we cannot cut non-essential spending in the midst of an emergency, when can it be cut?”

Interview Availability: Please contact Rebekah Rast at (703) 383-0880 or at rrast@getliberty.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.

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August 31st, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today called on the White House to publicly ask Warren Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway, to settle its $1 billion in outstanding potential tax liability for 2002-2009:

“Barack Obama should ask his friend Warren Buffett to pay the $1 billion that the IRS says his company owes to demonstrate his true commitment to ‘shared sacrifice’ by paying what is due under the current tax law. Perhaps this $1 billion tax fight from 2002 to 2009 is why he felt as if he was undertaxed. Not every American has hundreds of lawyers and accountants to protect them from the IRS. So it would be fitting if Obama asked Buffett to put himself in the position of the average American and pay without the benefit of the advice of thousand-dollar-an-hour lawyers.”

Attachments:

“Buffett’s Billion Dollar Tax Hypocrisy,” ALG President Bill Wilson, August 31st, 2011 at http://netrightdaily.com/2011/08/buffetts-billion-dollar-tax-hypocrisy/ .

Interview Availability: Please contact Rebekah Rast at (703) 383-0880 or at rrast@getliberty.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.

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August 29, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Gibson Guitar was raided by the U.S. Department of Justice recently for an alleged violation of environmental laws including the Lacey Act. Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today called on Tennessee Senators Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander to investigate whether the Department is selectively targeting companies for criminal investigations that do business in right-to-work states:

“Tennessee Senators Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander should immediately demand a full explanation from the Obama Administration for their apparent targeting of Gibson Guitar — which makes all of their guitars in the U.S. Based upon facts available, the only thing that distinguishes Gibson’s import of wood and that of its competitors is that Gibson is located in Tennessee, a right-to-work state, and its main competitors are located in non-right-to-work California and Pennsylvania.

“In the wake of Obama’s National Labor Relations Board’s attempt to prevent Boeing from expanding into right-to-work South Carolina, it is reasonable to question whether the Justice Department raid of Gibson is a gross abuse of power to appease their politically important Big Labor allies. It is up to Senators Corker and Alexander to get to the truth, no matter how ugly it might be.”

Interview Availability: Please contact Rebekah Rast at (703) 383-0880 or at rrast@getliberty.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.

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