by Mike Hall

The unprecedented Republican and corporate attacks on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) are a direct attack on workers’ rights and an effort to put the nation’s labor laws “into cold storage,” Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) said Wednesday during a special AFL-CIO forum examining the assault on the board and workers’ rights.

“This is the right wing on steroids,” he said. “They went to work immediately after the 2010 elections — not on jobs—but on taking rights away from American workers.”

Since January, said Kimberly Freeman Brown, executive director of American Rights at Work, congressional Republicans have made nearly 50 separate assaults on the NLRB from bills to gut its power and funding to hearings and subpoenas.

In fact later today, the House will vote on bill that would deny workers the right to fair union elections by blocking the modest changes proposed by the NLRB earlier this year in the way union elections are conducted.

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