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Broad alliance amasses funds to remove NLRB members

Coalition for a Democratic Workplace shifts from legislative battles to suits against regulations, presidential recess appointments A coalition of 600 national, state and local trade associations and ideological groups has raised a war chest of millions of dollars to contest not just National Labor Relations Board regulations but the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s recess appointments to the board. “It’s so beyond the pale and so clearly a violation of the Constitution,” said Geoff Burr, chairman of the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace and vice president of federal affairs for the Associated Builders and Contractors. What’s at stake goes far beyond the… Read More