WASHINGTON (AP/WMOT) — President Obama is promising to veto a labor relations bill sponsored by Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander.
Alexander and his fellow Republicans controlling the Senate are moving to reverse a new National Labor Relations Board rule that would shorten the time between a union's request for representation and the vote on whether to certify a union.
Alexander noted during a recent Senate Committee hearing that under the old rules most businesses held unionization votes in an average of 38 days. He complained anything less was unfair to both the company and the employees.
“This reminds me about Western movies about frontier justice and hanging judges. I mean if you can do it in eight days why don’t we say just do it in two days, or 12 hours, or six hours. A little over a month would seem to me to be a fair amount of time for both sides to make their point.”
A final vote on Alexander’s bill is expected today. Republicans do not appear to have the votes needed to override a presidential veto.