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In a long-awaited and controversial move, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has issued new rules designed to streamline the process for union certification elections, which currently allows employers significant latitude to delay the vote and undermine employee free choice. The response from the business community and the GOP has been uniformly, and predictably, negative. 

In characteristic over-the-top language, ranking member of the Senate Labor Committee Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) called the proposals “a gift to organized labor” by a “runaway agency.” The U.S. Chamber of Commerce attacked a “blatant attempt to give unions the upper hand by limiting the ability of employers to exercise their free speech rights.” And former Republican appointee to the NLRB Peter Schaumber cautioned that an employer “will be faced with an election only days away…without the ability to express itself on the issue of unionization to its employees.” 

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