Washington – Senate Democrats did not fail on Wednesday for a democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board After independent sens. Joe Manchin And Kyrsten Sinema Opposite the nomination and their hope of thwarts to lock a majority at the federal agency for the first two years of the term of the term of President-Elect Donald Trump.
A vote to continue with the nomination of Lauren McFarren, who is currently chairman of the NLRB, 49-50 failed. If she was confirmed to another five-year period, this would have cemented a democratic majority in the administration of the agency for the first two years of the incoming Trump government. Now Trump will probably be able to nominate the replacement of McFarren.
The NLRB supervises labor disputes, supervises the elections of the trade unions and has the authority to investigate unfair work practices. The part -time breakdown of the leadership of the NLRB is strongly disputed by companies and labor groups, because the majority in the board determine the agenda and determines how easily the agency uses its power to investigate and maintain labor laws.
“It is deeply disappointing, a direct attack on working people, and incredibly disturbing that this highly qualified nominee – with a proven track record in protecting the rights of employees – did not have the votes,” Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y ., said in a statement.
The rejection of McFarren was another blow to the Senate Democrats and President Joe Biden from Manchin and Sinema, who served as big brakes – and sometimes downright obstacles – to a large part of their legislative agenda the first two years of Biden’s period.
Manchin left the Democratic Party in May, while Sinema withdrew from the party in 2022. Both chose not to run for another senate period and will leave the congress in January.
Some congress republicans praised Cosin and Sinema for preventing the confirmation.
“This NLRB seat must be fulfilled by President Trump and the new incoming Senate. Not a historical unpopular president and a majority of the senate democrat who has lost her mandate to rule, ”said Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana in a statement after the vote.
“Big Labor knows that the days of having the federal government are offered are required,” wrote Rep. Virginia Foxx, RN.C. In a statement. Foxx, chairman of the Huiscommissie for Education and the Personnel File, said that the incoming Trump-Administration would concentrate on “implementing a real Pro-worker agenda.”
Company groups also praised the rejection of McFarren. Kristen Swieingen, a vice -president at Associated Builders and Contractors, a trade group, called McFarr’s policy ‘harmful’ and said that the process of nominating her was ‘defective’.
“Under the leadership of McFerran, the NLRB has expanded decisions and extensive interpretations of the National Labor Relations Act that have been rejected by the business community, the congress and the federal courts,” Swaren argued.
Trade unions have rejected the mood. Liz Shuler, President of the AFT CIO, the largest consortium of trade unions of the nation, said that the senators who rejected McFarren’s nomination “against the working population of this country” and warned that the incoming Trump administration would be the NLRB Send to send the NLRB to give the side of the management about employees.
“Make no mistake: this mood had nothing to do with stopping chairman McFerran’s hernomination and everything that has to do with reversing generations of progress that employees have made to build a fairer and more just economy,” said Shuler.
Like Schumer, Democratic legislators had a vague picture of the mood. Some pointed their anger directly to Cosin and Sinema.
“Short workers are a bad way to leave,” Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., wrote on social media.
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