Even Without Becker, Politicizing The NLRB
Thursday, February 18th, 2010 by adminCarter Wood has a fantastic post over at Shopfloor on politicizing the National Labor Relations Board and points to a rash of rash press statements made by the Board’s Chair, Wilma Liebman. That an NLRB chair is even making such statements is cause for concert, let along her championing the nomination of another individual (let alone, again, that of far-out Craig Becker).
Wood offers:
These are all familiar discussions in the political sphere and in policy disputes. But the NLRB is a quasi-judicial agency, “deciding cases based on formal records and hearings.” Board members perform an appellate function by ruling on disputes between employers and employees, business and organized labor. By weighing in on the side of labor — and the highlighted remarks implicitly do so — Liebman casts doubt on her ability to be a disinterested referee.
Click over for the entire post, which is today’s must-read item.
Tags: Craig Becker, National Labor Relations Board, NLRB, Wilma Liebman
February 19th, 2010 at 8:49 am
Shopfloor » Blog Archive » If a NLRB Quorum is So Important, Confirm Other Nominees says:[...] Finally, we draw your attention to yesterday’s post here at Shopfloor.org on the political PR campaign by the current chairman, Wilma Liebman, undermining the board’s quasi-judicial responsibilities. As the Truth About EFCA blog headlined its own post, “Even Without Becker, Politicizing The NLRB.” [...]
February 19th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Gary says:“Disinterested referee”? Since when was any liberal “disinterested” (impartial)? It’s not possible.