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By Richard Hankins
This week’s joint Congressional hearing entitled, “The National Labor Relations Board: Recent Decisions and Their Impact on Workers’ Rights” was, as expected, entertaining. Predictably, the majority of the witnesses selected by the Democrat-controlled committees asserted that the Board’s recent decisions undermined employee rights, while current Board Chairman Robert Battista (appointed by President George W. Bush) and former Board Member Charles Cohen (appointed by President Clinton to fill a traditionally Republican seat) disagreed. There was partisan rhetoric from the committee members and from some of the witnesses. But amidst all of that, there was clarity about the central point of contention – whether the United States government should be in the business of promoting union representation.
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