Amid Rampant Union-Busting, NLRB Warns Congress Its Funds Nearly Dry

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Amid Rampant Union-Busting, NLRB Warns Congress Its Funds Nearly Dry
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'The agency has already implemented a hiring freeze and, without additional funding, will likely be forced to pursue furloughs,' the NLRB wrote in a letter to Congress.

"The agency has already implemented a hiring freeze and, without additional funding, will likely be forced to pursue furloughs," the NLRB wrote in a letter to Congress.

"The agency's current funding level is impairing our ability to maintain staff capacity, both in headquarters and across 48 field offices," NLRB chair Lauren McFerran and general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo wrote in ato the heads of labor panels in the House and Senate."At this point, the agency has exhausted its ability to absorb cost increases through staff attrition and operational efficiencies.

"The agency has already implemented a hiring freeze and, without additional funding, will likely be forced to pursue furloughs," the letter adds.A major problem for the NLRB—and for workers pursuing legal recourse through the agency tasked with enforcing U.S. labor law—is that the party set to take over the House of Representatives isto unions and the board, potentially imperiling any effort to secure a desperately needed funding increase.

Earlier this year, Rep. Virginia Foxx , the top Republican on the House Committee on Education and Labor,

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