Glenn Spencer Senior Vice President, Employment Policy Division, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
The op-ed below was originally published in Fox Business on May 10, 2022.
Working to achieve labor’s most ambitious goals, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and their general counsel are disregarding decades of their own precedents, not to mention federal court rulings and the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA or Act) itself.
Regulatory overreach occurs when a government agency pushes the boundaries of the law. During the Obama administration, the National Labor Relations Board engaged in quite a bit of overreach, by one count attempting to overturn 4,559 years’ worth of precedent. The current NLRB, however, seems determined to break that record with a breathtaking regulatory rewrite of the law.
Glenn Spencer is senior vice president of the Employment Policy division at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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