US EditionManchin, Sinema block Democratic control of NLRB
- Manchin and Sinema have blocked Democratic control of the National Labor Relations Board .
- Their decision prevents the Democratic Party from having a majority on the NLRB.
- The NLRB oversees labor relations in the United States.
- This block shows divisions within the Democratic Party.
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Kyrsten Sinema And Joe Manchin Give Dems And Labor Unions The Middle Finger With Vote
Outgoing Independent senators Kyrsten Sinema (Arizona) and Joe Manchin (West Virginia) gave Democrats and labor unions the middle finger by siding with Republicans to oppose confirming President Joe Biden's renomination of Lauren McFerran for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which will let President-elect Donald Trump seize control of the board next year.NLRB is the federal agency responsible for safeguarding employees’ workplace right…
Manchin And Sinema Grab Beers, Pop Emergency Slide, Yell F**K ALL Y'ALL In Senate Exit
Screenshot from NextMedia’s CGI recreation of Steven Slater’s 2010 jetBlue resignation escapadeSens. Joe Manchin (Manchin Party, West Virginia) and Kyrsten Sinema (The Sinema Party, Arizona), voted yesterday against confirming Lauren McFarren for a second term as chair of the National Labor Relations Board. As the Associated Press explains, if McFarren had been confirmed for a second five-year term, “it would have cemented a Democratic majority…
Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema Prove Their Loyalty to Trump One Last Time
Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema are some of the worst politicians of this era. They are both power-hungry egomaniacs who saw the ability to appoint themselves de facto president in a razor-thin Senate that empowered individuals to be their worst selves, and they proved their worth as soulless ghouls prostrating themselves at the feet of the donor class. Manchin and Sinema’s legacies are being the avatars of self-serving Beltway creatures who couc…
Why Manchin took down a nominee for the National Labor Relations Board
The NewsJoe Manchin isn’t fading into the night as he nears retirement. The West Virginia senator raced back from a speaking engagement on Wednesday afternoon (his office wouldn’t say where he was) to provide the deciding vote against National Labor Relations Board nominee Lauren McFerran, a huge blow to labor and Democratic leadership. Manchin told Semafor that supporters were “playing hardball” to get his vote but he had already told them he w…
Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema angered the Democratic leadership of the Senate again. The outgoing senators from West Virginia and Arizona blocked a last-minute nomination for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Months earlier, when they were still Democrats, were the only party to vote against ending obstructionism in the Upper House and this time. Read more]]>
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