[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 118 (Monday, July 18, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H6684]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          BAD BEHAVIOR AT NLRB

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from 
North Carolina (Ms. Foxx) for 5 minutes.
  Ms. FOXX. Madam Speaker, the National Labor Relations Board, NLRB, 
under the Biden administration is so tightly wound around the little 
finger of union bosses that the circulation has been cut off entirely. 
Workers and employers are getting stiffed at every turn.
  Under Republican administrations, the NLRB took practical measures to 
protect the rights of workers and job creators. The times have indeed 
changed.
  The current NLRB's radical leftward lurch proves one solitary thing: 
Democrats will always twist themselves into a legislative pretzel to 
push the progressive policies of Big Labor.
  We are seeing a concentrated effort by the NLRB to expand Big Labor's 
power. For instance, the NLRB is exhuming policies from days gone by 
like the Joy Silk doctrine, which would allow unions to organize a 
workplace without ever receiving majority support in a secret ballot 
election. By eviscerating the secret ballot, a hallmark of democratic 
elections, card check makes workers more vulnerable to harassment from 
union organizers.
  Don't forget, a prominent union leader testified before the House 
Education and Labor Committee that union workers need workers' personal 
information to harass them at the grocery store or in their own homes 
to pressure them into supporting the union. Their admission tells you 
all you need to know about the political hackery of unions today.
  The Biden-appointed NLRB general counsel has also challenged 
longstanding precedent regarding employers' rights to educate their 
employees about the downsides of union representation. General Counsel 
Jennifer Abruzzo believes that such efforts are at odds with the 
fundamental labor laws of this country.
  Yet, this precedent was established in 1948, and no other general 
counsel ever found reason to challenge such a significant precedent. 
Coincidence? I think not.
  With a union cheerleader as the NLRB general counsel, the current 
NLRB is hell-bent on supporting the agenda of union bosses. Abruzzo is 
a former union executive and is pushing radical pro-union policies.
  Having former union employees serve in a union-regulating agency 
creates a clear conflict of interest. But under the Biden 
administration, this is the norm, not the exception.
  Every level of the NLRB, and the Biden administration, is packed with 
former union employees. Even his Labor Secretary was a former union 
boss who still walks the picket lines.
  But such actions are totally on brand for this administration. 
President Biden swore to be the ``most pro-union President'' in 
American history, and Big Labor is now the kingpin of this 
administration. At this rate, President Biden might as well be a 
stooge.

  Republicans must work to rein in the NLRB union's zealotry. Its 
heavy-handed actions infringe upon the freedoms of workers and 
hamstring employers.

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