When labor lawyer Craig Becker’s nomination to the National Labor Relations Board was rejected by a bipartisan vote of the Senate in February, it was due to fears on both sides of the aisle that the former counsel for the AFL-CIO and SEIU would use the board’s administrative powers to implement Card Check. But for all the focus on Becker, it turns out that the pro-union forces at the NLRB had grown stronger than anticipated. Becker has so far refused to recuse himself in at least a dozen cases where the National Right to Work Foundation claims he has “clear bias [and] conflict of interest,” but his conflict in a key decision this week was so great he did recuse himself this once — and the union bosses won anyway.
Recommended Stories
Print subscriber? Click here to login/register your account
Digital subscriber? Click here to login/register your account.