Major changes to the nation’s labor laws should be made by the people’s elected representatives, not partisan presidential appointees serving on obscure bureaucratic panels. But last year, without any deliberation by Congress, two Democrats on the three-member National Mediation Board jettisoned the board’s own legal precedent, dating back to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s day, to make it easier for unions to organize railroad and airline workers and harder for managers to offer counterarguments. In what is being billed as the biggest showdown between Congress and organized labor so far this year, House members will soon vote on Title IX of the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill, which would override the NMB’s unwarranted usurpation of congressional authority and restore the traditional limits on union power.
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