It seems that President Obama’s Big Labor cronies at his National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) get more brazen by the day. They’ve failed to comply with Congressional subpoenas, and are now seeking out their payback from the president—no matter what it does to the United States’ already faltering economy. Their actions leave us wondering: what won’t they do? How far will they go?
A piece in today’s Townhall points out that when it comes to going around Congress to ensure their demands are met, the NLRB has no shame, no matter how badly the regulations they are pushing would hurt American business. From Michael Uremovich’s piece:
“The White House disingenuously tries to distance itself from the NLRB by repeatedly referring to it as an “independent” agency over which it has no control. But it is President Obama who put unabashed union partisans in charge of the agency. Obama appointed Lafe Solomon, the architect of the Boeing complaint, as the agency’s acting general counsel to take the place of a long-term agency employee who was already serving in that position. And Obama recess-appointed Craig Becker, a labor radical in favor of micro-units and quickie elections, after he failed to receive sufficient support in the Senate due to his extreme views.”
Indeed—when given the opportunity, the White House has either stayed mum, as they did when the NLRB attacked Boeing for creating thousands of new jobs in the right-to-work state of South Carolina, or come down squarely on the side of Big Labor. We all know that President Obama owes a large debt to union boss allies for his 2008 election, if he wants that support to continue for 2012.
The president’s increasingly desperate claims that he has no control over his own agency are falling on deaf ears. Particularly when that same agency takes radical steps to undermine Congress and push Big Labor’s agenda on the American workforce at a time when we need all the new jobs (and job creators) we can get.
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