1. United States
2. Ore.
3. Letter

As our representative you must work across the aisle to protect your constituents in our workforce and democracy itself. The proposal from the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace to have the Attorney General unilaterally invalidate over a dozen properly issued decisions by the National Labor Relations Board is a severe threat to workers' rights and the integrity of labor law in this country. Allowing a political appointee with no labor law expertise to override precedential NLRB decisions at will would upend the principles of reasoned decision-making and due process enshrined in the Administrative Procedure Act. It would inject radical instability into a field of law that governs millions of workplaces and worker-employer relationships nationwide. Rather than a neutral arbiter issuing decisions based on careful consideration of the facts and law, labor policy would become subject to the whims of the executive branch, with devastating consequences for labor peace and economic stability. This unlawful power grab must be forcefully rejected to preserve the NLRB's congressionally-mandated independence and role as an expert adjudicator of labor disputes. Protecting the sanctity of the Board's precedents and processes is vital to providing certainty and fairness to all parties in labor relations.