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GOP Seizes NLRB
Ted Hesson, Politico, 9/26/17

GOP SEIZES NLRB: The Senate voted 49-47 Monday evening to approve William Emanuel to the NLRB, creating a Republican majority that will look for opportunities to reverse the pro-labor decisions of the Obama board. Republicans and buisness groups didn't try to hide their excitement. "It's a new day at the NLRB," House Education and the Workforce chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) said in a statement with Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.). "Today marks the end of a partisan era at the board, where we saw an activist agenda that empowered special interests at the expense of hardworking men and women."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was less enthusiastic, saying Emanuel was unqualifies to serve on a body whose statutory mission, as enunciated in the preamble to the 1935 National Labor Relations Act, is to promote commerce "by encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining." "In his more than four decades of practice, he has never been on the side of the workers - not once," Warren said. "A guy who has never even once represented workers should not serve on the NLRB. Period."