The Chair and General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently penned a letter to congressional appropriators, pleading for additional funding for the agency in the fiscal year 2023 appropriations bill, which Congress has not yet passed. The letter notes that its funding has remained at $274 million since 2014, but whether that should justify additional funding is worth scrutinizing.
The NLRB letter declares that the agency needs “additional funding in FY2023 to simply maintain current operations without any investments in critical infrastructure and cybersecurity needs.” It further states that “we will be forced to reduce our operational capacity, including likely furloughs of the dedicated career employees at the agency, unless Congress provides funding to cover these costs.”
While it remains unclear whether the current Congress will pass a permanent funding bill before a change in political control of the House of Representatives takes place in January, the relevant appropriations committees may want to look at the NLRB’s numbers before inflating its budget whenever they do pass a bill.
Specifically, the NLRB’s case numbers have been steadily declining for at least 20 years, notwithstanding the agency letter’s complaint of growing workloads for its employees. For instance, one of the NLRB’s core functions is to process unfair labor practice (ULP) charges, and in 2001 the NRLB processed 28,124 ULPs. In 2022, it processed only 17,998, a drop of 36%....
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