Obama appointee goes before the Senate

From the National Right to Work committee:

I have urgent news.

Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee were prepared yesterday to rubber-stamp Barack Obama's biased, pro-Big Labor nominee to head the Department of Labor. Fortunately, Senate Republicans, having heard the concerns of Right to Work supporters like you, invoked a little-used procedural maneuver to delay the vote again.

The Senate Committee is now scheduled to advance the Perez nomination next week. That gives us a little more time, but when Harry Reid and Tom Harkin move on this next week, they're likely to move very quickly. I need your help at once to stop it. A Republican-led filibuster is possible, but only if they're encouraged by a firestorm of grassroots opposition to Perez. Tens of thousands of Right to Work supporters have already authorized their free fax petitions urging their U.S. Senators to oppose the Perez nomination, but more are needed.

If you haven't already, please click here right away to urge your U.S. Senators to vote AGAINST the confirmation of Thomas Perez. You see, the stakes couldn't get any higher, especially after the war on worker freedom and the free enterprise system waged by Obama's Department of Labor so far:

*** Slashing the budget of the Office of Labor Management Standards, the federal agency that enforces union disclosure laws and serves as a watchdog against union-boss corruption;

*** Gutting transparency standards to make it more difficult for workers to learn how union bosses are really spending the forced dues seized from their paychecks;

*** Refusing to enforce anti-kickback provisions, allowing workers' wages to be kicked back to employers in union-sponsored job target funds. That's just scratching the surface.

Now Obama is eager to pay back his union-boss benefactors with more sweetheart deals and special privileges after Big Labor unleashed another Billion Dollar political spending blitz in 2012 to re-elect Barack Obama and other forced-unionism partisans.

And the union bosses know they have their man in Thomas Perez:

*** As Maryland's Secretary of Labor, Thomas Perez greased the skids to more easily force unionization on childcare providers.

That scheme mirrors Big Labor's nationwide strategy to force in-home care providers -- even parents, grandparents, and babysitters who take care of sick and disabled children with state assistance -- into dues-paying ranks.

*** Perez repeatedly tapped into the Big Labor well to fill political appointments.

In fact, Perez even gave a political appointment to a former organizer from the Laborers International Union of North America, an organization the Department of Labor Inspector General's racketeering section considered corrupt.

*** While on the Montgomery County Council, Perez allegedly used his position to influence, intimidate and pressure employers on behalf of Communications Workers of America union officials.

Attempting to justify those tactics, Perez made the offensive and derogatory comment that unionized workers "would be more productive, more motivated and more loyal" than non-union workers. The more than 93 percent of American private-sector workers free from union control don't need that kind of bias at the Department of Labor. Not only that, our economy just can't afford it.

That's why we must send a strong message against expanding forced unionism. So please, authorize your free action fax to your U.S. Senators insisting they oppose Perez's nomination. With the next action on the nomination next week, it's vital we turn up the heat before it's too late.

Please authorize your free action fax immediately.

Sincerely,

Mark Mix

P.S. The U.S. Senate Labor Committee is set to act on Barack Obama's nomination of forced-unionism partisan Thomas Perez as Labor Secretary next week. Perez has a long track record of using his power to do Big Labor's bidding. Please click here to authorize your free fax petition right away urging your U.S. Senators to vote AGAINST the confirmation of Thomas Perez.

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