October 2013

The United States Senate has confirmed Richard Griffin to be General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, giving the Board its first confirmed General Counsel in over three years, probably the longest time that the Board has gone without a confirmed General Counsel in its seventy-eight year history. 

NLRB

The shutdown of the federal government has reached many facets of society, including the NLRB.   The agency for all intents and purposes closed within a day of the lapse in funding, with Board agents throughout the country sending e-mails and letters to parties informing them case handling  had been suspended

Give the government long enough, and eventually it responds to the will of the people.  In 2007 pickets demanded that the National Labor Relations Board be closed.  You can see the picture here.  Now, a few years later, these pickets have at least part of their wish.  Along with