By Sean Higgins, The Washington Examiner
Former National Labor Relations Board Chairwoman Wilma Liebman had an op-ed in Politico yesterday urging the full Senate to approve the five NLRB nominees the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee is set to vote on tomorrow. She argues the situation at the NLRB — which currently lacks a valid quorum — is “exceptional.”
By Chris Woodward, One News Now
Last Thursday, May 16, a second federal appeals court ruled that President Obama exceeded his power in making recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, as the Senate was not actually on recess at the time of the appointments.
The past few months have not been kind to the National Labor Relations Board, what with a DC appeals court ruling in January against the Obama Administration’s appointment of several members of the board by recess appointment, and Legislation being introduced in the Senate in February to withhold funding from these unconstitutional appointees.
By Carlyn Kolker, Reuters
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday said an appointment President Barack Obama made to the National Labor Relations Board was invalid, becoming the second circuit to question the validity of the labor board’s decisions.
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U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander, the ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Thursday said he would oppose the nominations of Sharon Block and Richard Griffin to the National Labor Relations Board because “they continued to decide cases after the federal appellate court unanimously decided they were unconstitutionally appointed.”
By Hans Bader, Openmarket.org
Another federal appeals court has ruled that President Obama’s so-called “recess appointments” to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional because the Senate was not in recess at the time: “We hold that the Recess of the Senate in the Recess Appointments Clause refers to only intersession breaks.”
By Jim E. Winburn, vvdailypress.com
Dr Pepper Snapple Group employees at the Southern California Logistics Airport voted against union representation last week, according to the Los Angeles regional office for the National Labor Relations Board.
By Sean Higgins, The Washington Examiner
Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, announced Thursday that the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee would vote on all five nominees to the National Labor Relations Board next Wednesday. Harkin’s announcement followed a two-hour hearing — which will apparently be the only hearing — on the five nominees, three of whom are currently seated on the board.
By Tal Kopan, Politico
A second appeals court has joined the D.C. Circuit in ruling that President Barack Obama’s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional, concluding that some board actions taken in the wake of those appointments were also invalid.
Yes, a second court has now ruled that President Obama’s “recess” appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional. The 2-1 decision from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals that came down on Thursday confirmed what the D.C. Circuit Court had already found – that the Obama Administration failed to secure the constitutionally-mandated “consent’ from the Senate before filling vacant NLRB seats.