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Conservatives taking a big sledgehammer to the dam that's holding back a flood of labor disputes.
The NLRB isn't a tool for labor, it's a bulwark against wildcat strikes and industry lock-outs. It's a tool of government to grease the wheels of negotiation and rapidly reach settlements. Abolishing it doesn't benefit anyone, any more than abolishing the HR department benefits management or workers.
Real “tear down Chesterton’s Fence” energy in the GOP these days.
There's a certain hubris on the side of the GOP that isn't entirely undeserved.
Historically, they demolish a fence like this and it makes (some of) their donors richer. Then they knock down another fence and get richer still. Maybe they do it this time, to the same effect.
One could argue that we're hitting our limit. The dollar is sagging. Investment in the US - outside of a few petrostate oligarchies - is falling. Confidence in the US as a global source of stability is waning. But I say this as America mints its first trillionaires, so... maybe corporate business can break the back of a nascent labor resurgence without the NLRB's help.
Move Fast And Break Things has been the philosophy of American corporate expansion for the last twenty years. No reason to quit now.
Those trillionaires don't have real money though, only influence and buying power. You can't eat expected earnings. You are all suffering so a few people can be so filthy rich they can buy a country. Are you having fun?
Unlimited Spending Power is real enough.
Someone certainly is.