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Senate Confirms NLRB Members After Bipartisan Row

HeadlineAug 01, 2013

The Senate has voted to confirm all five members of the National Labor Relations Board, the government body that oversees labor complaints. The vote was held after the Senate reached a deal last month to approve President Obama’s nominees in return for preserving the filibuster. The vote to fill the NLRB gives the panel a quorum of five confirmed members for the first time in a decade. The panel has been slowed in recent years by a Republican refusal to confirm new Democratic members, threatening U.S. workers’ main recourse to defend their right to organize and to protect themselves against anti-union activity by employers.

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