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Opposing Washington's Culture of Union Favoritism

  • Obama Policies Stunting Job Growth, Stalling Economic Recovery
    Jun 21, 2012  - The Bureau of Labor Statistics this week reported a significant drop in job openings, indicating America’s employers are hesitant to invest in and expand their businesses. Adding insult to injury, economists at Stanford University and the University of Chicago released a new chart on Tuesday showing... More
  • Obama NLRB Won’t Take No for an Answer
    Jun 13, 2012  - Despite President Obama’s erroneous claim “the private sector is doing fine,” the American people aren’t buying it. Washington’s regulatory onslaught has forced many job-creators to sit on the sidelines, and as a result, the nation has experienced 40 straight months of unemployment above 8 percent a... More
  • Obama NLRB Extends its Losing Streak in Federal Court
    May 18, 2012  - This week, the Obama National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) suffered yet another defeat in federal court. On Monday, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg – appointed to the federal bench last year by President Obama – rejected the board’s recent ambush election rule. During the final days of 2011, the ... More
  • ICYMI: The Woody Allen Rule
    May 15, 2012  - Some of the Obama Administration's worst regulatory abuses have arrived via the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)—think of its lawsuit to stop Boeing from making airplanes in the right-to-work state of South Carolina. But such overreach is too much for at least one federal judge, who on Monday ... More
  • Kline: No End to Democrats’ Allegiance to Big Labor
    Apr 24, 2012  - U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement today after Senate Democrats defeated a resolution that would have blocked changes to long-standing rules governing union elections that were recently approved by the National Labor Relation... More
  • NLRB Reflects on “Another Year of Excellent” Work
    Mar 13, 2012  - Without a great deal of fanfare, National Labor Relations Board Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon recently released a report that amounts to his annual performance review. Solomon is responsible for investigating and prosecuting violations of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), as well as ove... More
  • Kline, Roe Commend Federal Court for Reining in Activist NLRB
    Mar 2, 2012  - U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Chairman Phil Roe today issued the following joint statement commending the federal District Court for the District of Columbia for striking down a National Labo... More
  • President’s Visit to Boeing Plant a Painful Reminder of the NLRB’s Destructive Actions
    Feb 17, 2012  - Later today, President Obama will visit a Boeing plant in Everett, Washington to tout his administration’s manufacturing policies. At a similar event held earlier this week in Wisconsin, the president discussed the opportunities that “exist right now to bring jobs and manufacturing back to the Unite... More
  • ICYMI: House and Senate Join in Opposition to NLRB’s Ambush Election Scheme
    Feb 17, 2012  - Yesterday, 65 members of the House of Representatives and 44 United States Senators introduced a resolution under the Congressional Review Act that will block the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) recent ambush election rule. In December, the NLRB finalized the first phase of its anti-worker ... More
  • ***MEDIA ADVISORY*** Senate and House to File Challenge to NLRB’s Ambush Election Rules on Thursday
    Feb 15, 2012  - On Thursday, February 16 at 3:45pm in the Senate Radio-TV Gallery, members of the House and Senate will file a challenge the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) recent ambush election rules. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Ranking Member Mike Enzi (R-WY) and Representativ... More

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