Despite White House claims on cutting back on regulations, Obama's NLRB continues to create new ones

From Politico's Playbook blog this morning:

A senior Office of Management and Budget official: "Last January, the President ordered an unprecedented government-review of existing rules. … [O]ver two dozen agencies have released ambitious reform plans, outlining hundreds of cost-saving reforms. A small fraction of those reforms, already finalized or formally proposed to the public, will save more than $10 billion over the next five years. Today, … OIRA [White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs] is issuing guidance telling agencies that they need to work on the front end, with the public and stakeholders, to avoid redundant, conflicting, or overly burdensome requirements. A rule that in isolation may seem perfectly sensible may overlap with existing requirements in problematic ways, especially for small businesses and startups. Going forward, agencies will have to keep the big picture of cumulative effects in mind when writing rules."

"From the 2-page guidance, 'Cumulative Effects of Regulations': '[T]he cumulative effects on small businesses and start-ups deserve particular attention.'"

Sounds good, right? But to placate his Big Labor cronies, President Obama's radicalized National Labor Relations Board wants to have employers surrender the personal contact information of its employees to aid unionization efforts so "ambush elections" can be held. The NLRB opposes employee challenges to union card check and state controls of it, and it is against workers' challenges to a union after a company is sold. But it supports "micro-unions," which would present more bargaining units and rules for management to wade through as they attempt to make money.

Anything else? Well, while curiously not including posters for workers' at union shops informing them of their rights in decertifying unions, Obama's NLRB wants workplace posters at non-union shops outlining how employees can unionize.

And most infamously, Obama's intrusive and wreckless NLRB tried to block the opening of a Boeing plant in South Carolina.

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