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NLRB Chairman, Ex-Teamster Attorney Liebman Departs Rogue Agency As Third Term Ends

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  August 27th, 2011 at 11:30 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

This is good.

National Labor Relations Board Chairman Wilma B. Liebman, who has served on the Board for nearly 14 years and under three presidents, will leave the agency at the completion of her third term at midnight today, August 27.

The White House has designated Member Mark Gaston Pearce to be Board Chairman upon Chairman Liebman’s departure.

Chairman Liebman was first appointed to the Board by President Bill Clinton and was confirmed by the Senate in 1997.  She was reappointed by President George W. Bush in 2002 and 2006, and was designated Chairman by President Barack Obama on January 21, 2009.  She is the third longest serving member in the Board’s 76-year history.

Before coming to the NLRB, Ms. Liebman served as Deputy Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and as counsel to two international labor organizations.

“It has been a privilege to serve on the Board and to work with people committed to carrying out the important mission of this agency,” Chairman Liebman said. “The values embodied in the National Labor Relations Act – which gives Americans a voice at work and helped to build a middle-class society – are enduring.  I am confident that the Board will hold fast to those values, even in challenging times.”

With SEIU/AFL-CIO attorney Craig Becker and union attorney (and newly-appointed NLRB chairman) Mark Pearce outvoting GOP member Brian Hayes on most major decisions, the rogue agency will most certainly continue on its path of economic terrorism* [*HT Joe Biden!].

Nevertheless, in commemoration of Ms. Liebman’s illustrious tenure at the National Labor Relations Board, the following strikes the appropriate chord for the nation:

Goodbye, Wilma. You’ve been…something.

Cross-posted on LaborUnionReport.com

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  • Darin_H

    Things like this drive me nuts, fill every appointment with conservatives.

    • johnt

      Just as now, Jeb Bush just said we ought not have attacks on Obama, & plenty agree with him. O is trying to destroy the country and we shouldn’t attack him, even, and this is the best, while he slanders others. Lambs to the slaughter.

      • johnt

        n/t

    • http://www.laborunionreport.com LaborUnionReport

      …and the minority from the minority party.

      While Liebman’s union extremism was every bit as bad as Craig Becker’s (and was easily seen in her dissents during the reign of the Bush Board), she was in the minority party and, therefore could ramble aimlessly.

      However, once she took control of the NLRB, along with members Becker and Pearce, her activism became the norm.

      As an FYI only, for those of us who have watch the NLRB for years, while there have been a couple of surprises coming out of this NLRB, most have not been surprised at the level of union extremism. It was expected.

      • Darin_H

        I don’t know how it works (obviously), but could the president put in some weak opposition, or break precedent and pack the whole thing?

        I guess I could see benefits and drawbacks of both, especially putting it to you when you’re out of power.

    • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

      They never were, none of them.

      • dmacleo

        n/t

  • mndasher

    The bigger question is not who the chairman of the NLRB is, but why does the NLRB even exist. It appears to be an organization designed to thrust unions down our throats. Seems like another agency that should be scrapped, one which out lived its usefulness before it even began in 1935.

    • acat

      When, between 1935 and today, have there been enough conservatives in power in D.C. to challenge the NLRB?

      Nobody was rocking the boat much during WWII, nor the 1950s. The 1960s were more charged over various “rights”, and the 1970s were just .. ugh.

      Sure, Reagan had the White House in the ’80s, but Tip O’Neil still had the House.

      Sure, Newt took the House in the ’90s, but Clinton hung onto the Presidency.

      Our goal in 2012 is, to me, pretty clear – get control of the House, the Senate, and the Presidency, and finally .. *FINALLY* .. stop playing rear-guard holding action, and start paring down the size of the govenment to more rational levels.

      Mew

  • Adjoran

    on Pearce and Becker, too, then.

  • earlgrey

    going to keep in place the same job destroying, people controlling mentalilty? I mean we won’t get a break until or unless BHO ever gets out of that pretty white house. There are so many liberal tools out there to take her place.