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House Republicans are advancing legislation that will prohibit the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from dictating where a private employer can and cannot create jobs. Critics of the Protecting Jobs from Government Interference Act (H.R. 2587) have touted bogus rhetoric in an attempt to discredit this sensible reform. The Education and the Workforce Committee is committed to supporting Americ... Read more »

House Republicans are advancing legislation that will prohibit the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from dictating where a private employer can and cannot create jobs. Critics of the Protecting Jobs from Government Interference Act (H.R. 2587) have touted bogus rhetoric in an attempt to discredit this sensible reform. The Education and the Workforce Committee is committed to supporting Americ... Read more »

House Republicans are advancing legislation that will prohibit the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from dictating where a private employer can and cannot create jobs. Critics of the Protecting Jobs from Government Interference Act (H.R. 2587) have touted bogus rhetoric in an attempt to discredit this sensible reform. The Education and the Workforce Committee is committed to supporting Americ... Read more »

House Republicans are advancing legislation that will prohibit the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from dictating where a private employer can and cannot create jobs. Critics of the Protecting Jobs from Government Interference Act (H.R. 2587) have touted bogus rhetoric in an attempt to discredit this sensible reform. The Education and the Workforce Committee is committed to supporting Americ... Read more »

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. illegally shifted work from union plants in Washington state to a new nonunion facility in South Carolina. Read more »

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 make a fully informed decision in a union election. At a time when more than 14 million workers are ... Read more »

This morning, U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) appeared on Bill Bennett’s Morning in America radio program to announce the third in the committee’s series of education reform bills designed to overhaul current elementary and secondary education law. The State and Local Funding Flexibility Act will provide states and school districts maximum flexibility... Read more »

On Thursday, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education Chairman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan requesting additional information about the department’s recent proposal to grant conditional waivers to states and schools. In the letter, Chairman ... Read more »

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 informed decision in a union election. As Chairman John Kline stated: "In a direct affront to the milli... Read more »

One year ago, the Obama administration promised the American people the summer of 2010 was “poised to be the most active Recovery Act season yet.” This was just one more assurance on top of many, including the claim that the $830 billion stimulus bill would invest in “shovel ready” projects to create millions of jobs and keep unemployment below 8 percent. Despite these lofty promises, most people ... Read more »