This was a nice try by the business front group the Workforce Fairness Institute:
A business group urged lawmakers to vote on other nominees for spots on a labor board after the Senate rejected a third, controversial nominee last week.
The Workforce Fairness Institute (WFI) pledged not to mobilize supporters against the one Republican and one Democratic nominee left for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) after the leader of the AFL-CIO lamented that the rejection of a third nominee, attorney Craig Becker, would hinder the productivity of the board […]
“I think you could confirm them with very little fanfare, and have an effective, functioning NLRB,” WFI executive director Katie Packer said of Pearce and the other nominee, GOP staffer Brian Hayes.
Understand what Hayes is saying here. The party in the White House typically gets the majority of members from their party on the NLRB. That’s been the case since its inception. The Workforce Fairness Institute wants the President to get an even 2-2 split on the board, and nothing more, which would be unprecedented in the history of the NLRB. What’s more, traditionally these nominees are moved as a package.
Who is the Workforce Fairness Institute, and why should they drive the number of nominees that a President gets to select for a labor board? They happen to be a wingnut welfare front group for business lobbying interests like the US Chamber of Commerce, populated with the usual assortment of former George Bush and Mitt Romney staffers.
The AFL-CIO last week called for recess appointments for all NLRB nominees, and the labor coalition American Rights At Work picked up that call today with an email tool to demand those appointments as well.
