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NFIB sues to overturn Obama recess appointments to NLRB

The National Federation of Independent business filed a legal challenge Friday to President Barack Obama’s Jan. 4 recess appointments of three members to the National Labor Relations Board. The small business amended its existing suit over the NLRB’s “Notice Posting Rule” to also challenge the constitutionality of the appointments, which occurred while Congress was technically still in session. “The president’s action was a surprise and terrible disappointment to small-business owners throughout the country who have suffered under the unabashedly pro-union rule-makings handed down by the NLRB,” Karen Harned, executive director of NFIB’s Small Business Legal Center, said in… Read More