Watchdog: Labor board member (R-Terence Flynn) broke ethics rules
Source: Bloomberg
By SAM HANANEL,
A Republican member of the National Labor Relations Board improperly revealed information about the agency's private deliberations to outside parties who had cases pending before the board, an internal government watchdog said Friday.
The board's inspector general said Terence Flynn violated ethics rules by sharing confidential details on the status of pending cases and the likely votes of other members before decisions were released. A report from Inspector General David Berry also faulted Flynn for a "lack of candor" during the investigation.
Flynn is a Republican appointed to the board along with two others by President Barack Obama in January. The report said Flynn committed the violations when he was still a staff lawyer at the agency, before he was elevated to one of its five members.
The NLRB oversees union elections and enforces unfair labor practices. Its five board members -- three Democrats and two Republicans -- function much like judges on an appeals court, hearing cases and issuing legal decisions.
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Crowman1979
(3,844 posts)They've been anti-labor for over a century!
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James48
(4,443 posts)Can he be directed to resign for his ethics violation?
Flynn was a "recess appointment" to the Board, among those the republicans screamed bloody murder over during this past Christmas break.
I sure as heck think the President needs to withdraw his nomination to the NLRB, if he can't simply fire him outright.
IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,077 posts)... give a Republican enough rope, and he/she will hang themself.
But another point that came to mind, now Obama has all the more reason to appoint only Democratic/Progressive folks. He can wag this one in Boehner and McConnell's faces: "I tried to play nice and do you a favor by appointing a Republican, but you are such a bunch of unethical folks".
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,649 posts)They have consistently proven they don't deserve respect.
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Why continue to indulge them, anyway?
socialindependocrat
(1,372 posts)"The NLRB oversees union elections and enforces unfair labor practices"
This is probably what the board is assigned to do!
So the pug was just doing his job!
Demit
(11,238 posts)No doubt they fervently believe that the labor practices which NLRB enforces ARE unfair, because they protect labor.
socialindependocrat
(1,372 posts)Response to Omaha Steve (Original post)
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