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Trumka Calls Court Ruling on NLRB Appointments 'Radical and Unprecedented'

Trumka Calls Court Ruling on NLRB Appointments 'Radical and Unprecedented'

A panel of Republican-appointed judges, including one who has, according to Think Progress, previously suggested that all business, labor and Wall Street regulation is constitutionally suspect, ruled that President Obama’s 2012 recess appointments of three members to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) are invalid. Senate Republicans had been blocking confirmation votes on the three before the president's action.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka called the ruling "shocking."

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