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...

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...

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?

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

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...

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.

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

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...

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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