In a press release yesterday, U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) issued a statement about the Committee’s new efforts to expand oversight of the Obama administration’s unilateral “carve outs” for unions:
“The Obama administration seems determined to shield its union allies from the devastating consequences of the president’s health care law while leaving every other American out in the cold. As he begins the latest push to sell a fatally flawed law, will the president discuss the special deals he is crafting for union bosses? The American people deserve the facts and it’s time for the administration to come clean.”
Representatives Kline and Roe have also sent letters to the DOL and HHS that renews their request for documents and communications regarding the alleged missing regulatory proposal that the Committee identified in September as “vanishing” from the Office of Management and Budget’s website. The Representatives also seek more information surrounding a future reinsurance fee regulation.
For Reps. Kline and Roe’s letter to the DOL, click here.
For Reps. Kline and Roe’s letter to HHS, click here.
For Reps. Kline and Roe’s first request to receive the information about the allegedly missing proposal, click here for full text of the letter and here for the press release announcing the request.
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December 22
Worker-friendly legislation enacted in New York; UW Professor wins free speech case; Trucking company ordered to pay $23 million to Teamsters.
December 21
Argentine unions march against labor law reform; WNBA players vote to authorize a strike; and the NLRB prepares to clear its backlog.
December 19
Labor law professors file an amici curiae and the NLRB regains quorum.
December 18
New Jersey adopts disparate impact rules; Teamsters oppose railroad merger; court pauses more shutdown layoffs.
December 17
The TSA suspends a labor union representing 47,000 officers for a second time; the Trump administration seeks to recruit over 1,000 artificial intelligence experts to the federal workforce; and the New York Times reports on the tumultuous changes that U.S. labor relations has seen over the past year.
December 16
Second Circuit affirms dismissal of former collegiate athletes’ antitrust suit; UPS will invest $120 million in truck-unloading robots; Sharon Block argues there are reasons for optimism about labor’s future.