Memo To Joe’s NLRB: Law By Fiat Can Reap Whirlwind

As a one-time card-carrying Teamster & UAW member who became a lawyer, it’s hard not to agree with WSJ shaming Joe’s NLRB counsel for “Rewriting Labor Law By Executive Fiat,” this time, by a memo warning companies not to mandate anti-union talks as if Dr. Fauci were calling the shots.

Here's the problem called out by the editors: “Progressives are pushing the Biden Administration to enact their agenda by executive fiat & Jennifer Abruzzo (a former union lawyer) is on the case. The NLRB’s [current] general counsel last week issued a memo that overturns 75 years of legal practice [as well as precedent] & strips companies of [their own] free-speech rights.”

It's an all-too common tactic started en force by President Obama and his AG mouthpiece Eric Holder: If you can’t get Congress to enact the law that fits your preferences, simply issue a memo, write a letter, or simply ignore existing law & Constitution until somebody says you can’t get away with it, then, ignore them anyway & keep doing what you’re doing. The WSJ calls the ruse illegal at worse and having an inevitable “chilling effect” on company rights at best. Yet, how foolish? As such undermining of the Rule of Law is not exempt from the old truism, “What goes around, comes around”?

Davd Soul