If left to the Republican Party, there’d be no National Labor Relations Board to look after employee rights in the workplace. Republican opposition forced President Obama’s appointment of members to the NLRB while the Senate was in recess, a process that courts have invalidated. The Senate may finally attempt to move on presidential nominations to the Board next week, but who knows. Without three members, the NLRB can’t act.
Richard Trumka, leader of the AFL-CIO, has written an opinion piece on the NLRB battle, and is distributing it around the country co-signed by local labor leaders — here Alan Hughes of the Arkansas AFL-CIO.
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