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  • ICYMI: Reining in the NLRB is good for workers and job creators
    Nov 10, 2011  - Based on the latest unemployment report, it is clear our economy is growing at an extremely sluggish pace. Employers’ efforts to create new jobs continue to be undermined by threats of higher taxes, more federal spending, and new bureaucratic regulations. In the face of such adversity, it’s no wond... More
  • ICYMI: Kline Discusses President’s Student Loan Plan, House-Passed NLRB Legislation with Wall Street Journal
    Nov 1, 2011  - On Monday, U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) spoke with the Wall Street Journal's James Freeman about President Obama’s controversial student loan plan, as well as the Protecting Jobs from Government Interference Act, bipartisan House-passed legislation t... More
  • Fighting Obama's job-killing agenda
    Oct 6, 2011  - Fighting Obama's job-killing agenda By Rep. John Kline In the midst of a national jobs crisis, President Obama continues to insist that the answers to our economic problems are more stimulus spending and higher taxes. Meanwhile, he has turned a blind eye to the job-destroying agenda of his own Nati... More
  • ICYMI: Headlines Highlight House Passage of Bill to Rein in NLRB
    Sep 16, 2011  - On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed with bipartisan support legislation to prevent the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from dictating where a private business can and cannot create jobs. The Protecting Jobs from Government Interference Act (H.R. 2587) is a key component of th... More
  • House Republicans Work to Rein in NLRB
    Jul 28, 2011  - This week, the House of Representatives is expected to consider H.R. 2587, the Protecting Jobs From Government Inteference Act. This important legislation will prohibit the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from dictating where a private business can and cannot locate employment. Today, Reps. Tr... More
  • The White House vs. Boeing
    Jul 28, 2011  - The White House vs. Boeing The Obama Administration opposes a bill to rein in the NLRB. Editorial Teenagers in the 1960s listened to Beatles records backwards in search of hidden meanings—a trick akin to the task of deciphering President Obama's statements on the battle between Boeing and the Natio... More
  • ICYMI: House Committee Passes Bill to Rein in NLRB
    Jul 22, 2011  - House Committee Passes Bill to Rein in NLRB By Melanie Trottman Republicans on the House workforce committee passed a bill Thursday that would bar the government from dictating where companies can do business – taking direct aim at the National Labor Relations Board’s complaint that Boeing Co. ille... More
  • ICYMI: Fox News Reports on Committee Oversight of NLRB Effort to Rush Union Elections
    Jul 8, 2011  - Yesterday, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce held a hearing to examine a recent proposal by the National Labor Relations Board to rush union elections. The NLRB's proposal will undermine an employer's right to communicate with his or her employees and cripple a worker's ability to ... More
  • ICYMI: The Union "Quickie"
    Jun 22, 2011  - President Obama's National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) continues to do the bidding of its powerful friends in Big Labor. The latest attack on America's workforce came yesterday in a new proposal that will restrict an employer's free speech rights and undermine a worker's ability to make a fully inf... More
  • While you were out…
    Sep 13, 2010  - Congress may not have been in session these last several weeks, but plenty has been happening in Washington and around the nation. Below is a brief recap of notable education and labor news – what you might have missed and what is worth watching in the waning days of the congressional session. Commo... More

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