Republican senators accuse labor board of ‘frontier justice'

[Omaha Steve]

http://thehill.com/regulation/labor/232464-republicans-accuse-labor-board-of-frontier-justice

By Tim Devaney - 02/11/15 12:30 PM EST

A bitter fight is erupting on Capitol Hill over a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rule that would speed up union elections.

Republicans and Democrats butted heads Wednesday in the first Senate hearing on what critics refer to as the “ambush election" rule.

The top Republican on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee accused the labor board of acting like vigilantes going outside the law to punish businesses.

"This reminds me of Western movies about frontier justice and hanging judges,” Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said during the hearing.

FULL story at link.

[pampango]

1. Nice to have the NLRB doing what it is is designed to do. The fact that this makes

republicans mad is not surprising. They had hamstrung the NLRB for a long time by refusing to confirm nominees to its board.