It’s an Ambush

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Free Beacon:

House Republicans are moving to block President Obama’s top labor arbiter from implementing new union election rules that would give labor groups an advantage in unionization campaigns.

 

Rep. Bradley Byrne (R., Ala.) told the House Subcommittee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on Tuesday that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) would “radically alter” the labor landscape through regulation rather than legislation. Byrne and congressional Republicans are employing the Congressional Review Act to attempt to block the NLRB from implementing changes they say are contrary to the law passed by Congress.

 

“The Board’s real goal is to dramatically tilt the outcome of elections in favor of union leaders by ambushing employers and workers without allowing them to fully understand their decision. The American people are on the losing end of the Board’s extreme culture of union favoritism,” he said.

 

Typical union elections take place five to six weeks after a union files a petition with the NLRB, which oversees the voting process. The NLRB’s proposal, dubbed the Ambush Election Rule by critics, would shorten that timeframe to as little as two weeks. This places the employer at a disadvantage, according to Glenn Taubman, an attorney with the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation.