Something the Dog Said wrote: And regardless, Congress passed the authorization without changing the rule back to the old archaic elective process.
A temporary authorization, correct? The decision is not final yet Dog, Congress may yet decide that it, and not an executive department, is the entity that legislates on this matter.
Actually, once again you are wrong. This matter is within the purview of the executive department as provided by Congress. Congress will have revoke the authority of the National Mediation Board to decide these matters, which they were specifically authorized to do so. It is highly doubtful that the Republicans will once again lose hundreds of millions in revenue at a time when the economy is suffering to attempt to score political points by micromanaging an executive department.
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Given the manner in which the NMB has decided to conduct itself, it is no wonder that Congress has decided it is no longer capable of deciding such measures without direct congressional oversight on the matter. How many labor friendly administrations have passed that agreed with the way it was set up? Let's see, there's FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, LBJ, Carter and Clinton for certain. I think we can also include Nixon and Ford in that mix without much argument. What's that, at least 75% of the administrations including the one who set up the department and originally set the rule into place 75 years ago? Seems like such labor icons of the 20th century, particularly FDR and Truman, would have never allowed a fundamentally unfair rule to exist for so long, doesn't it?
At least the rule is (ow was before someone decided to reward a special interest group) a simple majority of the workforce instead of the more challenging levels set for amending the Constitution.
