[Senate Document 114-3]
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114th Congress, 1st Session - - - - - - - - - - Senate Document 114-3
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                           VETO--S.J. RES. 8

                                (PM 12)

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                                MESSAGE

                                  from

                     THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

                               returning

     WITHOUT MY APPROVAL S.J. RES. 8, PROVIDING FOR CONGRESSIONAL 
DISAPPROVAL UNDER CHAPTER 8 OF TITLE 5, UNITED STATES CODE, OF THE RULE 
      SUBMITTED BY THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD RELATING TO 
  REPRESENTATION CASE PROCEDURES, RECEIVED DURING ADJOURNMENT OF THE 
                        SENATE ON MARCH 31, 2015

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                 April 13, 2015.--Ordered to be printed
To the Senate of the United States:
    S.J. Res. 8 would overturn the National Labor Relations 
Board's recently issued ``representation case procedures'' rule 
and block modest but overdue reforms to simplify and streamline 
private sector union elections. Accordingly, I am withholding 
my approval of this resolution. (The Pocket Veto Case, 279 U.S. 
655 (1929)).
    Workers need a strong voice in the workplace and the 
economy to protect and grow our Nation's middle class. Unions 
have played a vital role in giving workers that voice, allowing 
workers to organize together for higher wages, better working 
conditions, and the benefits and protections that most workers 
take for granted today. Workers deserve a level playing field 
that lets them freely choose to make their voices heard, and 
this requires fair and streamlined procedures for determining 
whether to have unions as their bargaining representative. 
Because this resolution seeks to undermine a streamlined 
democratic process that allows American workers to freely 
choose to make their voices heard, I cannot support it.
    To leave no doubt that the resolution is being vetoed, in 
addition to withholding my signature, I am returning S.J. Res. 
8 to the Secretary of the Senate, along with this Memorandum of 
Disapproval.

                                                      Barack Obama.
    The White House, March 31, 2015.

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