More coverage of the Drakes Bay Oyster Conflict today. The Wall Street Journal reports (see also print edition, A4):
Its owners, Kevin and Nancy Lunny, declined to comment through Cause of Action, a Washington, D.C., advocacy group that represents them legally. “The Lunnys are weighing their options for next steps,” said Amber Abbasi, a lawyer for the group, in a statement.”
There is continued fallout from the NLRB case that overturned President Barack Obama’s recess appointments. More from The Washington Free Beacon:
Critics of President Barack Obama’s recess appointments are calling on Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan to recuse herself from a potential Supreme Court hearing on the matter. The Chamber of Commerce raised the prospect of recusal, citing then-solicitor general Kagan’s defense of President Obama’s recess appointments in a previous case regarding the composition of the National Labor Relations Board.
Bloom Energy continues to reveal cronyism in their business dealings, this time paying workers nearly 2/3 less than minimum wage. Mercury News has this story:
A prominent Silicon Valley clean-energy startup has been ordered to pay back wages and penalties for bringing in workers from Mexico and paying them about $2.66 an hour in pesos, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Tuesday. Sunnyvale-based Bloom Energy, which makes fuel cells and sells energy to clients including AT&T, Adobe, Coca-Cola, eBay, Google and Wal-Mart, was ordered by a judge to pay $31,922 in back wages and an equal amount in damages to 14 welders who were brought in to work alongside domestic workers refurbishing power generators.
