[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 4764]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       MEMORANDUM OF DISAPPROVAL

  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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