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WHITE HOUSE WITHDRAWS BATTISTA AS NLRB NOMINEE

(International Labor Communications Association)WHITE HOUSE WITHDRAWS BATTISTA AS NLRB NOMINEE

    WASHINGTON (PAI)--The GOP Bush regime announced May 6
that it withdrew the nomination of management-side
labor lawyer Robert J. Battista, former National Labor
Relations Board chairman, to a new 5-year term on the
board.

    Union leaders cheered the move, and had lobbied
senators to turn down the Battista nomination, which
Bush sent to the Senate Jan. 25.  Under Battista’s
reign, which ended Dec. 16, the NLRB became known for
a series of partisan 3-2 party-line rulings
restricting workers’ rights, ruling workers were not
covered by labor law and cutting penalties for labor
law-breaking.

    Before chairing the NLRB, Battista was management’s
lawyer during the bitter Detroit newspaper lockout.
The AFL-CIO’s blog and other publications reported
Battista joined the “law firm” of Littler Mendelson,
which the fed said is a notorious union-buster.             
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