Bush Renominates Anti-Worker Lawyer to Labor Board
29th January 2008
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If it's late on a Friday, look out for the Bush administration to take an action it hopes the public won't notice. And so it was Friday, when President Bush renominated Robert Battista, the point man in Bush's war on workers, to another term on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Battista's five-year term expired in December.
The former NLRB chairman constantly voted against workers and their unions and in favor of management rights during his tenure. Last month, Battista told a joint Senate-House hearing he doesn’t believe the primary purpose of the National Labor Relations Act is to promote collective bargaining. (For a good look at the NLRB's actions, check out the American Rights at Work's blog, Eye on the NLRB.)
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney says Bush's action is a
blatant attempt to keep a Labor board with an unbalanced, anti-worker bias, and they would be poisonous to America’s working families.