Senate and House Democrats attacked the Republican-led National Labor Relations Board at a Congressional hearing on Thursday, saying its recent decisions had favored employers over workers. The Democrats focused on 61 board decisions issued in September that, among other things, made it harder for unions to organize workers and harder for illegally fired employees to collect back pay. ?This board has undermined collective bargaining at every turn, putting the power of the law behind lawbreakers, not law victims,? said Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat who is chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
See "Critics Say Labor Board Favors Business", Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, December 13, 2007