Obama is known by his lack of action

        You may recall the hub-bub about Wisconsin Governor Walker  awhile ago. The result has virtually gone unnoticed, or at least unreported. If one truly examines the facts of the dispute between Walker and the unions, the dispute was about money. Not the member's money, but union money.

Governor Walker wanted to limit the issues subject to collective bargaining by teachers and most other public employees. I understand that Obama said that Walker’s action was an assault on union rights. It was really an assault on the union money. The result is that teachers' unions can no longer require school districts to purchase teacher's health insurance from union’s preferred provider. According to an editorial  by George Will, this limitation is already saving millions of dollars and reducing teacher layoffs. 

Another Walker success is that teacher's unions may no longer automatically deduct union dues from members’ paychecks. This action scares unions because union membership, ergo union money, drops dramatically without automatic dues collection. It seems that when teachers or other public employees have to consider the value of making the union payment, the value is not worth it.

We do not hear too much about unions today except in special cases such as in Wisconsin. When the union head is raised, you can bet the issue is money. Unions are genuinely powerful organizations, and their power is related directly to money. 

  A current demonstration of their power is that the NLRB is suing Boeing for building an aircraft assembly operation in South Carolina that will employ 5,000 non-union workers. The NLRB is governed by a five-person board, all of whom are appointed by Obama. The NLRB, ostensibly an independent organization, is attempting to compel Boeing to build the plant in Washington and hire union workers. Obama was reported to have said that he wished labor and management did not fight all the time. 
      Labor is not fighting Boeing, the adversary is an Obama appointed NLRB. Obama can ask for the presidents of other countries to resign. He can ask for the presidents of American corporations to resign. But apparently he can not tell the NLRB to let Boeing build the plant where it wants. Really?

We need more Governor Walkers, and fewer Presidential talkers.