Unions Use U.S. Labor Board to Bully Employers, Lawyers Say
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Organized labor is filing trumped-up charges with the national labor board and intimidating employers into capitulating to unionizing efforts, executives and lawyers told a U.S. House committee.
Unions are displaying large inflatable rats in front of companies, staging mock funerals, running smear campaigns and filing frivolous charges with the National Labor Relations Board, employers and lawyers said today at a hearing of a House Education and the Workforce Committee panel. Democrats said those campaigns are protected free speech and Republicans are targeting the NLRB after the board filed a union-retaliation complaint against Boeing Co.