Business groups push back against NLRB regs

The Hill:

Business groups continue to press the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) over its proposed rule to have employers post notices informing workers of their organizing rights. 
On Monday, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) will present oral arguments in federal court for their lawsuit against the proposed regulation. On a Friday conference call with reporters, Joe Trauger, NAM’s vice president of human resources, said the union poster rule is one of many actions the NLRB has taken this year that has angered business. 
“This is just one part of what has been an activist agenda that could have a negative impact on employers,” Trauger said. 
The rule, which was meant to go into effect this November, requires employers to post notices in their workplaces that would inform workers of their right to form unions. After pushback from trade associations, the NLRB delayed implementation of the rule until January next year, so businesses could prepare for the rule. 
Business groups have lobbied hard against several NLRB actions, including the notice rule. Unions and their Democratic allies have battled back, arguing the attacks are meant to undermine workers’ rights. 
What has attracted the most attention has been the labor board’s April 20 complaint against Boeing for allegedly retaliating against union workers. 
The aerospace giant ran into trouble with the labor board after its executives expressed worries about work stoppages at its unionized facilities in the state of Washington. Boeing then started a new production line for its 787 Dreamliner jet in South Carolina, a right-to-work state. 
The NLRB dropped its complaint against Boeing after the International Association of Machinists and the company resolved their differences when they agreed to a four-year contract extension to build the new 737 MAX jet at union facilities in Renton, Wash. and elsewhere. 
The Boeing complaint, a proposal to speed up union elections, and a board ruling that could create smaller bargaining units for unions, along with the notice rule, have all raised the ire of business groups. Consequently, House Republicans have either proposed or passed legislation to block many of those proposals this year.
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The NLRB has been doing everything it can to promote union thug activities instead of protecting the workers.  These are all good issues for Republicans to campaign on in 2012.  Add the administrations opposition to the pipeline deal and there are many issues where the Obama administration is on the wrong side of the voters.

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