Rat of the Day Award

IUOE Local 2 is getting attention for their rat balloon in St. Louis.

This article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch notes that, "Makers of customized balloons say unions are pretty much the only market for their rodent designs."

And speaking of rats, Chairman Battista of the NLRB takes the unusual step of defending the Board's Guardmark decision in a letter to the Washington Post today.

By the way, the General Counsel issued this memo (scroll down to Secondary Boycotts) in 2003 calling Inflated Rats "Signal Picketing" and relied on an episode of the Sopranos ("Calling All Cars (HBO TELEVISION DRAMA SERIES, SEASON FOUR 2002)") for the "legal support" thereof. Your tax dollars at work, folks.