Marathon Pundit: NLRB overreach report, return to Wisconsin edition

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

NLRB overreach report, return to Wisconsin edition

Wisconsin is back in the labor overreach news.

From the Wausau Daily Herald:

A conflict over the annual Labor Day parade in Wausau is the latest reminder of lingering tension between organized labor and the Republican Party in Wisconsin.

Marathon County Labor Council President Randy Radtke confirmed Monday that no Republican lawmakers are welcome to participate in the organization's Labor Day parade -- a departure from procedure in previous years.

"I don't like when politicians try to use us, use our event, for their personal gain," Radtke said. "And that's pretty much what they're doing. The Republican politicians in our area don't side with us, but now they want to make it look like they're on our side."

The decision to bar GOP lawmakers might mean parade organizers will lose financial support typically provided by the city of Wausau.

From the Wisconsin Reporter:

Quiet West Allis will serve as ground zero this Labor Day weekend on the test of free speech, as an organized labor movement faces off against a neo-Nazi group.

And in the latest twist on union protests that this summer have disrupted Gov. Scott Walker appearances at a Milwaukee Catholic school, the Wisconsin State Fair and a Special Olympics ceremony, the labor-led Wisconsin Bailout the People Movement is trying to draw a link between Walker and the Nazis.

The Daily Caller reports on some possible GOP machinations.

A political maelstrom may soon develop over the National Labor Relations Board, as Senate Republicans might finally have some leverage over Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

NLRB chairwoman and Democratic member Wilma Liebman's term ended this past weekend, bringing the Board's total membership down to just three members. There are two Democratic members, Craig Becker and Mark Gaston Pearce, and one Republican member, Brian Hayes.

President Barack Obama appointed all three of them, but the Senate only confirmed nominations for Pearce and Hayes. Obama recess-appointed Becker after the Senate rejected his nomination.

Becker's recess appointment runs out at the end of the year, and the Board would lose its quorum if another member weren't either recess-appointed or Senate-confirmed by then.

SHOT:

Labor Board's Exiting Leader Responds To Critics

Liebman: "The perception of this agency as doing radical things is mystifying to me."

CHASER:

NLRB Rewriting Labor's Role In The Workplace

NLRB Pleases Unions By Strangling Economy

The GOP's fall harvest plans include culling regulations. From Politico:

House Republicans have laid out their fall jobs agenda, and it mostly revolves around killing environmental and labor regulations while pushing tax cuts for businesses.

For good measure, they're also planning another round of attacks on the health care reform law.

In a memo sent to his colleagues Monday, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor listed ten regulations he contended were the "most harmful" to job creation and laid out a schedule of when the lower chamber will take up their repeal. Most of the regulations are issued by the Environmental Protection Agency, but Republicans are also zeroing in on the National Labor Relations Board and the health care law.

"By pursuing a steady repeal of job-destroying regulations, we can help lift the cloud of uncertainty hanging over small and large employers alike, empowering them to hire more workers," Cantor wrote in the 2,064-word memo.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor says President Obama is not interested in private-sector job growth. From Politico:

House Republicans have laid out their fall jobs agenda, and it mostly revolves around killing environmental and labor regulations while pushing tax cuts for businesses.

For good measure, they're also planning another round of attacks on the health care reform law.

In a memo sent to his colleagues Monday, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor listed ten regulations he contended were the "most harmful" to job creation and laid out a schedule of when the lower chamber will take up their repeal. Most of the regulations are issued by the Environmental Protection Agency, but Republicans are also zeroing in on the National Labor Relations Board and the health care law.

"By pursuing a steady repeal of job-destroying regulations, we can help lift the cloud of uncertainty hanging over small and large employers alike, empowering them to hire more workers,' Cantor wrote in the 2,064-word memo.

Cantor says the president is not interested in private-sector job growth. From The Hill:

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Monday morning that the House Republican plan to boost job creation through deregulation is needed because the Obama administration has shown it is "not interested" in creating jobs in the private sector.

"I think the administration has … already demonstrated that it is not interested in focusing on private sector growth," Cantor said Monday on Fox News. "The record has been thus far, in this administration, a continued expansion of government, continued grabs at trying to tell people who want to go out and invest and create a profit that maybe they've done so, done enough already, and that we need to take that money and put it elsewhere."