U.S. Chamber Steps Up Fight to Sink Labor Board Nominee

[Earth Bound Misfit]

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/10/14/us-chamber-steps-up-fight-to-sink-labor-board-nominee/

Climate change isn’t the only battle leaders of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce:puke: are waging.

The business group is also determined to block the nomination of union lawyer Craig Becker to the five-member National Labor Relations Board.

The Chamber has been circulating a draft of an anti-Becker letter it plans to send to key senators today, trying to get as many signatures as it can from trade organizations. The letter, asking for a hearing on Becker’s nomination, is addressed to Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, which will vote on Becker’s confirmation, and Sen. Mike Enzi:puke: of Wyoming, the panel’s top Republican.

“Mr. Becker has written prolifically about the National Labor Relations Act, the law he will be charged with interpreting and enforcing should he be confirmed,” the Chamber writes. “Many of the positions taken in his writings are well outside the mainstream and would disrupt years of established precedent and the delicate balance in current labor law.”

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In explaining its concerns about Becker, the Chamber mentioned “The extent to which he would restrictively interpret employers’ free speech rights” during union organizing drives, and that he’d push for third-party union officials to have greater access to workers on employer premises.

Michael Eastman, the Chamber’s executive director of labor law policy, already asked for a hearing on Becker three months ago. Now he’s worried the committee will approve the nomination without one.

“This may be the last best chance that we have,” he said in an email to members of the Chamber’s labor relations committee. The Chamber is not asking for hearings on the other NLRB nominees, including one with a labor-side legal background.

FUCK OFF, "Chamber".:puke:

[pscot]

1. The Chamber is public enemy number one

Tom Donohue is a major league asshole.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

2. The average American has more to fear from the US Chamber than from Al Qaida

"More Americans have died because of the US Chamber and its assault on worker rights, worker protection, consumer protection, environmental rules etc. than Al Qaida could ever dream of."

DUer nichomachus

As for Donohue, your sentiments +15.

[Omaha Steve]

3. K&R!