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CWA: Confirmation of NLRB General Counsel Ensures Fully Functioning Labor Law

29 Oct, 2013

Washington, D.C. -- Today’s action by the US Senate confirming Richard Griffin as NLRB general counsel is the final piece needed to ensure a fully functioning Board. Now, 80 million private sector workers will continue to have the protections of federal law through the only agency that can enforce their workplace rights, the NLRB.

Last summer, the Senate confirmed five Board members, ending a delay in workplace justice for millions of workers.

We call on the Senate to move forward on other critical nominations put forward by President Obama, including Tom Wheeler to head the Federal Communications Commission, Mel Watt to head the Federal Housing Finance Administration and judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. If Senate obstruction continues, we call on Majority Leader Reid to take the necessary steps to move these nominations forward.

CWA and our allies are committed to ending the abuse of the Senate rules, which allows a minority or Senators, or even one individual, to block nominations and prevent measures with majority support from having even a minute’s debate on the Senate floor.