The National Labor Relations Board will steadily lose its ability to enforce federal labor laws if Congress doesn’t pass an increase in funding for the agency before this session ends in January.
The National Labor Relations Board will steadily lose its ability to enforce federal labor laws if Congress doesn’t pass an increase in funding for the agency before this session ends in January, the agency union is warning.across the country over the past year, and the agency says it’s struggling to keep up as it undergoes a nine-year drought in budget raises. The union says that the U.S.
If Democrats don’t increase the NLRB budget before this session of Congress ends in January, it will likely be the party’s last chance to do so for at least two years; Republicans, who are slated to take the House, will not approve NLRB budget raises. This could majorly kneecap the burgeoning labor movement and workers’ ability to challenge employers when they violate labor laws.
“This is the crisis in labor law enforcement we have warned of,” the union said. “Only Congress can prevent this catastrophe from happening by increasing the agency’s budget.” The fact that the NLRB budget has remained stagnant for so long — amounting to a nearly 25 percent budget cut when inflation is taken into account —“We have a huge target on our backs,” labor board attorney and NLRB union legislative co-chair Michael Bilikthis week. “It’s been a top priority of Republicans to prevent us from getting a single dollar of an increase.”
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