While masturgate was going on they slipped this under the radar ...

posted by The Vidiot @ 9:25 PM Permalink

When Bush can't change the law, he changes the rules:

NLRB Redefines Union Eligibilility

The National Labor Relations Board, in a 3-2 ruling said
[...]
Health care industry workers permanently assigned as "charge nurses" should be considered supervisory and thus ineligible for union representation, a federal panel held Tuesday in a decision with sweeping implications for the broader labor force.

"It's a big blow to workers who want to be in a union," said Nancy Schiffer, an attorney for the AFL-CIO. "If an employer gives you supervisory responsibility, you lose the right to have a voice at work."
[...]
[AFL-CIO President John Sweeney] said the NLRB is dominated by Bush administration lawyers. He also noted a dissenting view, which said the ruling "threatens to create a new class of workers under federal labor law: workers who have neither the genuine prerogatives of management, not the statutory rights of ordinary employees."

So it was a 3 to 2 ruling ... gee would that have anything to do with

Bush appointed all five current board members, including three Republicans, all of whom were confirmed by the Senate in December of 2002.

Millions of workers whose jobs couldn't be shipped overseas just lost the right to organize and fight it collectively.