Tag: National Labor Relations Board

Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., said the micro-union rule allowing divisions within a larger company to organize is a mere gift to organize labor. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

GOP seeks to roll back ‘micro-union’ rule

Sean Higgins · May 24, 2017 10:21 pm

National Labor Relations Board ruled this month that workers at a Pennsylvania industrial laundry service could decertify the United Steel Workers. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Workers win 4-year effort to drop union

Sean Higgins · May 16, 2017 9:33 pm

Republican lawmakers are considering a pro-business bill to nullify the Obama administration's efforts to expand the legal definition of "joint employer." (AP Photo/Jason Reed, pool)

GOP considering new legislation to ease Obama’s labor policy

Sean Higgins · May 5, 2017 7:37 pm

Philip Miscimarra, the new chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, is still in the minority because the other two current board members, Mark Pearce and Lauren McFerran, are Democrats.

New NLRB Chairman Philip Miscimarra expected to undo recent pro-union changes

Sean Higgins · May 1, 2017 4:01 am

Lauren McGarity McFerran was approved by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Tuesday to be the newest member of the National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency that enforces labor law. (AP Photo)

Trump picks National Labor Relations Board chair, assistant secretaries

Anna Giaritelli · April 22, 2017 12:43 am

CAIR sign

Labor group charges union busting by CAIR

Sean Higgins · April 20, 2017 9:23 pm

A group of 47 House Republicans is urging the heads of Congress' appropriations committee to restrain the National Labor Relations Board from implementing several of former President Barack Obama's changes to labor regulations. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

Republicans call on Congress to restrain NLRB

Sean Higgins · April 10, 2017 6:32 pm

Justices rule 6-2 that Obama improperly named a general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Supreme Court limits presidential appointment power

Sean Higgins · March 21, 2017 6:18 pm

Business groups and conservative activists are taking a page from their liberal counterparts and using state-level activism, enlisting friendly legislatures to undo a federal pro-union regulation that targeted big franchise businesses such as McDonald's. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Business groups enlist states to undo a hated Obama pro-union regulation

Sean Higgins · March 13, 2017 5:01 am

This year, North Carolina Republican Virginia Foxx, 73, became the first woman to take up the gavel of the House Education and Workforce Committee since New Jersey Democrat Mary Teresa Norton in 1947. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Congresswoman Virginia Foxx is on a quest to roll back Obama’s workplace rules

Sean Higgins · March 6, 2017 5:01 am

President Trump is close to picking Vermont lawyer Peter Robb to be the next general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board, sources indicate. (Wikipedia Commons)

Chamber of Commerce pushes Trump to reverse NRLB policies

Sean Higgins · February 28, 2017 8:36 pm

Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., tells Richard Griffin to "abandon his partisan agenda or step down immediately."

Committee head slams NCAA unionization memo from labor board counsel

Sean Higgins · February 2, 2017 8:33 pm