That’s a Nice House You Have There, It’d be a Shame if Something Were to Happen to it

For decades now, employers have been obligated to turn over the names and addresses to NLRB  when a union election was pending.  That way, union goons could show up at people’s homes, and “convince” them to vote for union “protection.”  Now, with Obama’s non-recess recess appointments to the NRLB, the intrusion into people’s lives may increase.  Labor Union Report at Redstate has more…

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:

“We keep our eye on the prize,” Pearce said in an interview with The Associated Press. “Our goal is to create a set of rules that eliminate a lot of waste of time, energy and money for the taxpayers.”

One change Pearce wants is to require businesses to hand over lists of employee phone numbers and emails to union leaders before an election.

He also wants the board to consider other rule changes it didn’t have time to approve before it was on the verge of losing a quorum last year. That includes the use of electronic filings and quicker timetables for certain procedures.

“My personal hope is that we take on all of these things and consider each one of these rules,” Pearce said. “We presume the constitutionality of the president’s appointments, and we go forward based on that understanding.”

On the surface, this may not seem all that serious.  You can set the spam filter on your email account to throw out the emails, and caller ID can eliminate intrusive union calls, but what of the 4th Amendment?  When I had a land line (I got rid of it to save some money, as well as not give a dime to the related union), it was a private number.  It was unpublished, because I wanted my privacy.  Consequently, is the government invading the privacy of workers by mandating that their private information be given to labor unions?  Of course, we have a right to privacy if we want to kill a baby, but it doesn’t apparently apply to street addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, or, for that matter, being sexually assaulted at an airport.

I guess that right to privacy established in Roe  v. Wade, as well as the 4th Amendment, is rather arbitrary in their application.