Despite Veto Threat, U.S. House Votes To Freeze Obama’s Constitutionally-Challenged NLRB

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Despite Veto Threat, U.S. House Votes To Freeze Obama’s Constitutionally-Challenged NLRB

 

As Congress votes to curtail the NLRB, Obama pushes a budget increase for the rogue agency

 

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary) | April 13th, 2013 at 10:05 PM

 

Despite the threat of a Presidential veto, on Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Preventing Greater Uncertainty in Labor-Management Relations Act to halt the National Labor Relations Board from issuing decisions or rulings until the U.S. Supreme Court can rule on the NLRB’s legitimacy or nominees are properly confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

 

The bill was drafted in an effort to rein in the labor relations chaos created when Obama’s ‘recess’ appointees to the National Labor Relations Board were found to be unconstitutionally appointed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

 

Since the Circuit Court’s ruling, hundreds of cases the NLRB has ruled on (and is still ruling on) have been thrown into legal limbo and dozens of companies, the Teamsters, as well as employees are challenging the NLRB’s validity.

Upon the bill’s passage,