The NLRB's Hooliganism

The National Labor Relations Board was intended to impartially resolve issues between companies and unions in a fair an unbiased manner thus avoiding strikes and other job actions. Until the Obama administration the NLRB conducted itself with a modicum of professionalism. In recent months the NLRB has waged a frontal assault on property rights as exemplified in the Boeing case wherein the NLRB has sought to force Boeing to shut down a newly built plant in South Carolina and limit its expansions to the state of Washington.

Now, in what even the kindest interpretation and charitable assessment can only be called political hooliganism, the supposedly neutral NLRB has engage in blatant political thuggery by blasting the Republican budget plan on its web site. The site was quickly scrubbed when an Office of Budget and Management official, Michael Lazzeri, emailed the budget director of the NLRB, " In case didn’t get my vmail. That press release needs to come down from your website. In the future you guys have to clear that stuff with us," wrote Mr. Lazzeri. The email was obtained by The Hill in a FOIA request.

During the continuing resolution debate for the 2010 budget Rep Tom Price (R-GA) tried to defund the NLRB entirely but 60 Gop congressmen voted against the proposal. It would be nice if someone in the Gop had the temerity to station a 16 foot inflatable rat outside the offices of the NLRB since the courts and the NLRB consider such buffoonery to be protected speech.