What in the world is going on at the NLRB?

[ProSense]

What in the world is going on at the NLRB?

By John Logan, Professor and Director of Labor and Employment Studies at San Francisco State University.

These are strange times at the National Labor Relations Board. First, the Board has endured months of relentless right-wing attacks. Now, in an unprecedented move, Brian Hayes, the sole Republican member of the NLRB – which will be reduced to two members and lacking a quorum by the year’s end – is threatening to resign in order to sabotage a long-awaited new rule on union certification elections.

In an op-ed in The Hill, former Bush NLRB chairman Peter Schaumber, a prominent critic of the Board, blames the current shambles on the allegedly shabby way Hayes has been treated by his fellow Board members, both Democrats. But Hayes’ resignation threat has been coming for months.

When Chairman Wilma Liebman’s term ended in late August, right wing groups and prominent Republicans immediately called for Hayes to step down in order to incapacitate the Board. Senator Graham stated that, given the NLRB’s efforts to enforce the law more effectively, “Inoperable is progress,” whereas South Carolina Governor Nikki Halley would “support anything that would disband the NLRB.” Perhaps the only surprise is that Hayes has taken so long to follow their advice.

Amid all the recriminations of the past weeks – furious letters and demands for documents from House Democrats and Republicans -- it is easy to lose sight of what’s really going on. Two major disputes are at the heart of recent events at the NLRB, and both reveal the GOP’s cavalier disregard for fundamental labor rights – rights that are taken for granted in almost every other developed democracy in the world.

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[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. Republican shenanigans

apparently. :eyes: :puke: :banghead:

"Inoperable is progress"?

:wtf:

IMHO Graham has summed up the entire Republican strategy since 2009.