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Dave Jamieson

How Senate Obstruction Helped Ruin This Guy's Life

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.23.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- In the past three years, Marcus Hedger has lost a good-paying manufacturing job and a nice home in Antioch, Ill. Thanks to the dysfuncti...

Obama Picks Advance Despite GOP Opposition

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 05.22.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — A Senate panel has endorsed President Barack Obama's slate of five nominees to sit on the National Labor Relations Board. Two of th...

Give Us Five: A Fully Functioning NLRB Needs All Five Members

Larry Cohen | Posted 05.16.2013 | Politics
Larry Cohen

They know that even under the best circumstances, justice is hard to come by. Now, the Senate is making it virtually impossible for workers to gain the justice they deserve. And what does that say about our democracy?

Dave Jamieson

How Republicans Could Shut Down A Federal Agency

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.15.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- With the Senate about to consider President Obama's nominees to the National Labor Relations Board, Democrats and labor groups are growi...

This Week's Opportunity to Get Our Labor Board Operating Again

Dave Johnson | Posted 05.13.2013 | Business
Dave Johnson

President Obama has nominated five people to the National Labor Relations Board. Two are Republicans. All are waiting for confirmation by the Senate. These nominees should be confirmed so the NLRB can get back to work.

Union Rule Struck Down By Appeals Court

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 05.07.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — In another blow to the nation's dwindling labor unions, an appeals court on Tuesday struck down a federal rule that would have requ...

No NLRB, No Voice

Larry Cohen | Posted 04.12.2013 | Politics
Larry Cohen

Today the NLRB has no teeth, but if H.R. 1120 has its way, tomorrow it might not survive. A vote for H.R. 1120 is a vote to send this country to a pre-1935 era, before the National Labor Relations Act.

GOP Pushes Bill To Halt Labor Board Action

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 04.12.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The House on Friday passed a bill to prevent the National Labor Relations Board from conducting much of its business until a disput...

Dave Jamieson

Board Games: How The Collapse Of The Senate Has Crippled The NLRB And Damaged Lives

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 03.25.2013 | Politics

SMITHERS, W.Va. -- When he was a teenager, Barry Kidd went into the West Virginia coal mines, just like his father, his grandfather and his great-gran...

Dave Jamieson

A New Union For Bank Workers?

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 02.21.2013 | Business

Armored-car workers in New York City will vote Thursday on whether or not they should join a newly formed labor union that hopes to get a toehold in t...

The President's Agenda Faces Peril in the Courts

Jamin Raskin | Posted 04.16.2013 | Politics
Jamin Raskin

The most ardent desire of conservative judges is to defeat progressive legislation and progressive enforcement of the laws, and the recent decision of...

White House Makes Move After Federal Court Smackdown

Reuters | Posted 04.15.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday formally nominated two members of a labor board whose appointments had been in doubt aft...

Dave Jamieson

Biz Lobby 'Licking Its Chops' Over Recess Appointment Debacle

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 02.02.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The appeals court ruling striking down President Barack Obama's recess appointments to the federal labor board is barely a week old, but...

Judicial Activism and Recess Appointments

Peter M. Shane | Posted 04.02.2013 | Politics
Peter M. Shane

What is striking about the DC Circuit opinion is not its bottom line, but the scope of its reasoning. Despite a pretense of constitutional modesty, the court decided the Recess Appointments issue on the broadest possible ground.

Should Obama Pull a 'W' on the Obstructionist Assault?

Adam Levin | Posted 03.30.2013 | Politics
Adam Levin

I hate to say it, because I wasn't a fan, but this never would have happened under George W. Bush. There was a president who got what he wanted.

Permitting Legislative Repeal by Blocking Nominations: The DC Circuit Recess Appointment Disaster

Peter M. Shane | Posted 03.29.2013 | Politics
Peter M. Shane

Of course, the Senate is not intended to be a rubber stamp. But stalling nomination votes simply to keep laws from being enforced -- effectively repealing the laws that cannot be enforced without the nominees in place -- is utterly inconsistent with the Senate's proper confirmation role.

Federal Court Smacks Down Obama Appointments

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 03.27.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama violated the Constitution when he bypassed the Senate last year to appoint three members of the National Lab...

Court Hears Challenge To Obama Recess Appointments

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 02.04.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Republicans and business groups told a federal appeals court Wednesday that President Barack Obama violated the Constitution earlie...

Bold Obama Move Challenged

AP | TAMMY WEBBER | Posted 01.30.2013 | Politics

CHICAGO — A federal appeals court in Chicago heard arguments Friday in a case that challenges whether President Barack Obama had the authority t...

Why You Shouldn't Shop at Walmart on Friday

Robert Reich | Posted 01.21.2013 | Home
Robert Reich

The widening inequality reflected in the gap between the pay of Walmart workers and the returns to Walmart investors, including the Walton family, haunts the American economy.

Christina Wilkie

Exclusive: Inside Walmart's Secret Strike Plan

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 10.16.2012 | Business

Walmart launched a large-scale response this week to a series of unprecedented labor strikes, according to a confidential document obtained by The Huf...

Dave Jamieson

'DO NOT POST': Major Companies' Social Media Policies Deemed Unlawful

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.31.2012 | Technology

WASHINGTON -- In an effort to control employees' activities on Facebook and Twitter, some U.S. companies have instituted social media policies that ru...

Officials Address Probe Involving Former Romney Adviser

The Huffington Post | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.29.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on Tuesday addressed the recent resignation of their former colleague Terence Flynn...

Dave Jamieson

Official Resigns After Investigation Involving Former Romney Adviser

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 05.28.2012 | Politics

A member of the National Labor Relations Board resigned quietly over the holiday weekend after investigators found that he had leaked sensitive board ...

Republican Leaves Labor Board Amid Leak Allegations

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 05.28.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A member of the National Labor Relations Board accused of leaking inside information has resigned, the agency announced Sunday. Terence...