Big Labor throws a temper tantrum

Oops, the SEIU and the AFL-CIO are pissed off. We all know that BHO has spent much of his first year sucking up to his union cronies. He nominated a radical Secretary of Labor, reduced transparency requirements for labor unions, kicked back huge amounts of stimulus money to the unions, rewrote the laws governing government contracts to give labor ultimate control, tried to ram Card Check legislation through Congress, invited SEIU president Andy Stern to the White House every other week, called off Bush administration-era investigations into union officials, and practically let labor write a compromise on health care reform.

But it's just not enough. After Craig Becker, Obama's nutty nominee for the National Labor Relations Board was rejected by the Senate this week, the unions are blind with rage. John Gage, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, bleated, “Here’s labor getting thrown under the bus again. It’s really frustrating for labor, and a lot of union people are thinking: We put out big time in money and volunteers and support. And it seems like the little things that could have been aren’t being done.”

It's almost tempting to defend Barack Obama here. What more does he have to do to satisfy these people? Fortunately, if Big Labor remains petulant and whiny every time they don't get their way, Obama could lose his most potent and evil allies. Without Big Labor's big pockets, Obama would be just another Chicago pol.

The big labor payback: Obama gives unions veto control over government contracts

We all know that Obama is a tool of big labor, but his latest union giveaway makes all the other kickbacks look like child's play.

Obama just announced his new High Road Contracting Policy, (that's Orwellian/Obamian doublespeak for "union tyranny.") Under the plan, government contracts will be given to companies that meet conditions laid out by the Department of Labor. Labor will get to assess and "score" companies based on how effectively they toe the union line. For example, if the Department of Labor decides that a certain corporation isn't paying its workers a "living wage" (whatever the hell that means), they can give them a low score and kill their government contract.

It gets worse. Each government department must now appoint a "labor advocate." (Like Stalin's 'political officers' their mission is to implement the boss's wishes and report those who fail to observe them). These sneaky tyrants will be responsible for scoring companies in the running for a departmental contract. Their arbitrary decisions will instantly kill deals for businesses that fail to conform to their specious standards.

This much power is unprecedented. So guess who's getting to handle the payback?

The Ministry of Work, excuse us, Department of Labor is headed up by SEIU- backed, Hilda Solis, a radical left-wing labor hack and former lobbyist* for American Rights at Work, a pro-labor group. Thanks to Obama, she now has control over the hundreds of billions of dollars of business performed every year through government contracts. We can only speculate upon the political color of her 'labor advocates'.

First, the government. How much longer will it be before these spies are placed in every business in America?

* One of more than 40 in Obama's Administration. Didn't he say he was against them?