Examiner Editorial: Obama's NLRB protects union thugs, not elderl

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Washington Examiner:

President Obama portrays himself as a president who stands up for the most vulnerable in our society. Nursing home patients and their families in Connecticut got a look behind the rhetoric last week.

In the name of standing up for workers' rights, Obama's National Labor Relations Board -- the one staffed by people he installed through controversial "recess appointments" when the Senate was in session -- sued to have a nursing home reinstate employees who went on strike.

The Service Employees International Union members who worked at HealthBridge nursing homes went on strike after rejecting the company's final offer in contract negotiations. HealthBridge cut benefits, terminated the pension plan and raised wages by 2.2 percent.

As they left the facility, some of the union members sabotaged Alzheimer's wards in two nursing homes. One of the nursing home directors told police that "the name tags on the patients' doors for the Alzheimer's ward were mixed up. The photos attached to the medical records for these patients were removed, further complicating, but not making impossible, the identification of the patients. Also, dietary blue stickers affixed to the door name tags were removed."