Congress returns from its two-week break today. If it has any respect for itself, it will promptly schedule a vote on President Obama’s most recent veto.
The nixed bill was a resolution to strike down new regulations issued by the National Labor Relations Board in mid-December. These new rules, which run 180 pages and are complex, would have the effect of making it easier to unionize certain workplaces. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., who introduced S.J. Res. 6, said the new regulations allow “a union to force an election” to decide whether to unionize “before an employee has a chance to figure out what is going on.” To the concern of some in Congress, the rules also would force employers to provide union advocates with employees’ email addresses and phone numbers…(read more at the Weekly Standard)