Republican NLRB Board Member Resigns After Leaking Board Documents To Romney campaign

Terence Flynn resigns before he got fired 

Republican National Labor Relations Board member Terence Flynn has resigned after the board’s Inspector General found Flynn had leaked confidential internal labor board documents to two former NLRB members who were working to undermine and discredit the board.

One of them, Peter Schaumber, is a former co-chair of Mitt Romney’s labor committee. AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka had called for Flynn’s resignation in March.

Mitt Romney made these comments before his labor adviser resigned:

I’m very concerned our president has pursued labor policies that are destructive to industry, to hiring and to job growth, Those policies are one reason America is having a very difficult time coming out of this economic slowdown.

Romney added he would encourage states to pass right to work laws, as South Carolina has done.

The NLRB had ruled against Boeing because it had broken the law. Terence Flynn had disclosed confidential documents about the ruling to Peter Schaumber. 

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The NLRB rises from its ashes

President Barack Obama bypassed GOP opposition to make three recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board.

sources:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57352364/obama-makes-3-recess-appointments-to-nlrb/

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WIN: Obama makes some recess appointments at At NLRB and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

1/4/2012

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By Doug Cunningham 

President Obama Wednesday used recess appointments to fill positions on the National Labor Relations Board. Sharon Block, Terence F. Flynn and Richard Griffin were appointed to the board. Senate Republicans had blocked confirmation of the president’s NLRB board members. The president has the power to appoint his nominees when Congress is in recess. Obama also used recess appointment for Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka commended Obama’s NLRB appointments and said it ensures that crucially important agencies protecting workers and consumers are not shut down by Republican obstructionism.

By Doug Cunningham 

President Obama used recess appointments to fill positions on the National Labor Relations Board.

Sharon Block, Terence F. Flynn and Richard Griffin were appointed to the board. Senate Republicans had blocked confirmation of the president’s NLRB board members.

The president has the power to appoint his nominees when Congress is in recess. Obama also used recess appointment for Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka commended Obama’s NLRB appointments and said it ensures that crucially important agencies protecting workers and consumers are not shut down by Republican obstructionism.

However, Obama is having trouble confirming judges. 

The Alliance for Justice shows that the GOP’s obstructionism is unprecedented.

[T]he Senate confirmed fewer of [Obama's] district and circuit nominees than every president back to Jimmy Carter, and the lowest percentage of nominees – 58% – than any president in American history at this point in a President’s first term. By comparison, Presidents George W. Bush, Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Reagan and Carter had 77%, 90%, 96%, 98%, and 97% of their nominees confirmed after two years, respectively.

source: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/06/02/234775/mcconell-wont-confirm/ and Workers Independent News

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