Obama's nominees are a career NLRB guy and a career lawyer, the first beng nominated for General Counsel to the Board and the second being nominated to be a board member.
https://www.nlrb.gov/news/president-obama-nominates-lafe-solomon-be-general-counsel-terence-f-flynn-be-member-national-laOddly, that would still leave a vacancy on the board, which currently has three members. (Full board = five members
https://www.nlrb.gov/who-we-are/boardThe Chair, Pearce, an Obama interim appointment, was also a lawyer.
https://www.nlrb.gov/who-we-are/board/mark-g-pearce-chairmanSome of the above were labor law lawyers, but they could just as easily have represented employers against employees, unions and the Board. Their bios don't say. Regardless of whom they represented, though, again, they were LAWYERS, not thugs.
Craig Becker, board member, another Obama nominee, was a union lawyer--a summa cum laude graduate of Yale Law.
No offense to the muscularly-challenged, but, based on his photo, "thug" is about the last word you might choose to describe him. Looking at him, "scholarly," "bookish," "slight" and "probably mild-mannered" are some of the the words that leap to my mind.
Brian Hayes, another board member and Obama appointee, "had most recently served as Republican Labor Policy Director for the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions."
https://www.nlrb.gov/who-we-are/board/brian-hayesI think an apology from Romney should be demanded.
UTMA. (Union Thugs, My Ass).