NLRB rarely fair to business

Reading Anthony Marnell III's comments in today's R-J Business section struck a chord with me. The National Labor Relations Board had issued a complaint against M Resort for firing six security guards who were allegedly caught going through the confidential employee files.

Any employer unlucky enough to have dealt with the NLRB knows that this federal agency, especially at the lower levels, is pretty much an extension of organized labor.

So, when Marnell says: "Whether they (the employee documents) were left out or in a locked drawer, it is not their right to be able to go through them. They can spin it however they want, but those are the facts. I am absolutely mystified that the NLRB would try to penalize the M for trying to protect the confidential information about employees and future applications."

I feel M's pain. It was a shock to me, too, when I first ran into the NLRB and discovered that this alleged "referee" is not an impartial judge at all. Business, in my experience, is guilty until proven otherwise. If there is any doubt, or a fact that can't be proven beyond a shadow of doubt, then ties go the union. That's why it's called the National LABOR Relations Board, not the National EMPLOYER Relations Board.