Union Card Check: Craig Becker
After EFCA failed in Congress, organized labor and the Obama administration turned its attention to a backdoor attempt to accomplish many of the bill’s objectives without a vote of Congress, by recess appointingCraig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board. Becker is associate general counsel to both the SEIU and AFL-CIO.
Becker believes the NLRB can and should implement EFCA without a vote of Congress, and intends to do so as a member of the Board. Becker has written that “employers should be stripped of any legally cognizable interest in their employees’ election of representatives.”
His appointment was opposed because he would use the NLRB to implement EFCA by the backdoor.