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NOT A JOKE: National Labor Relations Board is Investigating Barstool Sports Founder

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The Hollywood Reporter reports that the National Labor Relations Board is now investigating Barstool Sports Founder Dave Portnoy for his recent efforts to discourage his staff from unionizing.

BLP reported on Portnoy’s spat with left-wing journalists and even Congresswoman Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez on the subject of unionization. Portnoy remained adamant about his anti-union stances.

The NLRB believes that Portnoy’s action constitutes an illegal move to discourage his employees from joining a union.

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Left-wing journalists like Rafi Letzter, a writer at Live Science, were goading Barstool employees into joining a union. However, Portnoy responded by threatening to fire any employee who tried getting contact with journalists or make any attempts to unionize.

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This exchange soon engulfed AOC, who declared that Portnoy was “likely breaking the law“, while Donald Trump Jr. chimed in by saying that “Picking a fight with @stoolpresidente and @barstoolsports is probably the biggest mistake @AOC has ever made on Twitter.”

Now, a federal agency is getting involved in this dispute.

The Committee to Preserve the Religious Right to Organize recently filed charging papers at the NLRB against Barstool Sports. The Chernin Group holds a majority ownership stake of Barstool Sports. According to the charge, which The Hollywood Reporter obtained, “Within the last six months, Barstool Sports, affiliated with the Chernin Group, through its crazed president, Dave Portnoy, has threatened to discipline employees on account o[f] Union and/or protected activity. The Charging Party seeks as relief that Mr. Portnoy be required to tweet and otherwise publicize his severe and sincere apology and to post the appropriate Notice on the public website. He should be required to read the Notice to all employees and make a public announcement about the Notice on his media locations of any nature.”

The NLRB says that it recognizes the filing and sent a letter to Barstool Sports so that they can get a response. The NLRB enforces the National Labor Relations Act. Sections 7 and 8(a)(1) protects employees’ rights to join or set up a union, while Sections 8(a)(1) & (3) prohibits “interfering with, restraining, coercing or firing an employee in regard to those rights.” Another provision of the law, Section 8(a)(4), bars any form of retaliation against an employee for filing charges or providing testimony.

At the same time, a lesser-known part of Section 7 additionally protects non-unionized employees’ rights to participate in “concerted activities” (group activities) for the purpose of “collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection.”

Because of this charge, the NLRB is tasked with investigating Barstool Sports and all other parties involved. A decision on the charge is expected to come in the next few months unless the charges are withdrawn. If the charging party is successful in their case, an NLRB Regional Director could petition a federal court for an injunction against Barstool Sports.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Plans to Introduce Articles of Impeachment Against President Biden ON DAY ONE

She’s citing Biden family corruption.

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Georgia freshman Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is planning on introducing articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden the day after he’s inaugurated.

Greene made the announcement on Wednesday.

Greene is citing Biden family corruption, accusing Biden of standing by as his own relatives enriched themselves through business deals with foreign oligarchs, using the former Vice President’s family name.

Biden game-planned on messaging to dismiss his son Hunter’s involvement with corrupt Ukrainian oil company Burisma, receiving advice from the State Department while accusing the company’s oligarch owner of criminal activity. It didn’t occur to Biden to address the fact that his own son secured highly lucrative employment with Burisma until the topic became a point of political contention in the 2020 election.

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Biden’s brother, Jim Biden, has also been accused of securing lucrative business deals in China under the auspices of the Biden family name. Biden has steadfastly refused to speak in detail about suspicious Biden family business dealings, even though he’s gone so far as to openly brag about securing the termination of a Ukrainian prosecutor investigating Hunter Biden and Burisma for laundering profits of the former state-owned enterprise.

Greene is demanding that Biden be held accountable for the de facto licensure of his family name in Ukraine, an international liability that far surpasses anything proven to be real through a lengthy investigation into Donald Trump’s supposed connections of Russia.

The articles of impeachment are doomed from the get-go, with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi assured to protect Biden from allegations of corruption and poor governance. However, the Democratic Party has been unable to resist turning the presidential impeachment process into a wholly partisan, reactionary affair, and may reap the whirlwinds of their decision if Republicans willing to hold the establishment politician accountable gain majorities in the House and the Senate.

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