President Obama is nominating two new members to the National Labor Relations Board a week after the panel withdrew its case against Boeing over building an airplane factory in South Carolina.

The damage here goes well beyond Boeing, which presumably understands the tradeoffs. The NLRB is exposed as one more federal agency that can’t be trusted to make honest decisions. The ability of the 21 right-to-work states, which passed such laws under the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, to attract businesses from pro-union states will also be eroded. The AFL-CIO may cheer that message, but in practice the result is likely to be that more companies simply send jobs overseas where there’s no NLRB. Congratulations.

It’s being described by some in the mainstream media in terms that suggest the National Labor Relations Board caved to political pressure from conservatives in its decision last week to drop its case against Boeing. In fact, the decision represents a near-total victory for Big Labor, a point crudely driven home by the threat from the board’s general counsel that other firms could expect similar attacks in the future.

The National Labor Relations Board dropped a high-profile complaint against Boeing Co., a move that was expected after the aerospace company’s 31,000-member machinists union approved a sweeping contract extension earlier this week.

This article originally ran in the December 5 edition of the Washington Times: Having lured in viewers with the promise of an open meeting but then cloistered themselves away in another government conference room and broadcast their discussion by closed-circuit television last week, two members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) pushed through troubling […]

The vote of 235-188 came on the same day as two unelected Members of the National Labor Relations Board announced they intend to deny employers certain legal and due process rights during union representation elections

Employers Express Disappointment At Agency’s Unfair, Unwise Decision WASHINGTON, D.C. // NOVEMBER 30, 2011 // Today, the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, which represents over 600 employers, associations and other organizations operating in every Congressional District, released the following statement from Chairman Geoffrey Burr: “Today’s decision by two unelected bureaucrats on the National Labor Relations […]

The descent of the National Labor Relations Board from independent referee to a wholly owned AFL-CIO subsidiary is speeding up. Now its two Democratic appointees are attempting to ram through a new rule requiring quickie organizing elections, with barely any notice and little consultation with its sole GOP member.

Union organizers would be empowered to force hurry-up, or “ambush,” elections in less than two weeks. At best, this compressed schedule would significantly reduce the time business owners and managers have to make their case against unionization.

Fog of NLRB Wrongdoing Lifted by Hayes Letter WASHINGTON, D.C. // NOVEMBER 21, 2011 // Today, the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, which represents over 600 employers, associations and other organizations operating in every Congressional District, renewed its call on Congress for oversight of the out-of-control National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), citing a letter from […]

Congress has a right to know now whether the Boeing complaint reflects benign poor judgment or an abuse of the agency’s prosecutorial discretion. Already, we know the filing of this complaint is chilling business investment in the United States, and for good reason.

Today, the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace thanked Sen. Johnny Isakson for introducing a bill that would remedy inappropriate, overreaching actions by the National Labor Relations Board to fracture the workplace and create a swarm of “micro unions.”

House Republicans are preparing to advance legislation that would give employers more time to react to union petitions. The bill, which will come up next week, is a response to rules that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued over the summer that call for quick union elections once a petition is filed.

Newly released documents regarding the National Labor Relations Board complaint vs. Boeing reveal that extensive, though ultimately futile, efforts were made to avoid litigation.

John Kline: For far too long, I have been hearing from job creators, workers, and frustrated, unemployed men and women who want to know how we can get America working again. They want to see us put the nation’s fiscal house in order and remove Washington’s regulatory roadblocks to job creation.

President Obama’s recess appointment of Craig Becker after his nomination was filibustered by the Senate for views considered outside the mainstream set the stage for a radical activist results-oriented National Labor Relations Board (Board or NLRB). Driven by an intense desire to turn back the clock on the decline of unionization in the private sector, the Obama Board has reached out and upended settled Board law and procedure.

Rep. Denny Rehberg is to be commended for looking out for taxpayers and all working Americans through key provisions in the 2012 Labor, Health and Human Services (LHHS) funding bill currently before Congress. While legislation affecting so many homes, workplaces, and employees is necessarily complex, the LHHS bill from Rep. Rehberg has responsibly used the […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. // OCTOBER 26, 2011 // Today, the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace along with co-plaintiff National Association of Manufacturers filed a motion in federal court seeking summary judgment to prevent implementation of the NLRB’s ill-advised, unlawful effort to force approximately 6 million workplaces to post notices that amount to advertisements for joining a […]

CDW sent a letter to Members of the House of Representatives for marking up the Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act

The Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act, introduced by Minnesota GOP Rep. John Kline, is one of many bills proposed to rein in what California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa described this month as a “rogue agency.” The legislation will move soon to the full House.