these recess appointments were thrown out. so in terms of vindicating the constitution separation of powers, this is a very important decision. basically saying the president had decided unilaterally to say, i think the senate is in session. therefore, i will appoint these, even if the senate says itself, it is not in session. right. the senate was conducting something called pro forma sessions, precisely to prevent the white house from making recess appointments, and he said, oh, no, no. this count as a recess, i m going to go ahead and make these appointments anyway. quick detail, justice breyer arbitrarily said a break in the session should be at least ten days. the one obama was citing was three days. and the liberal justices simply couldn t swallow the idea that s a real recess. what s the practical implication of this for the president s power to appoint, make recess appointees, the whole point of which was to say all right, congress, back in the founding days, took two o
within ten days. management has ten days to undo the campaigning of what could be several years in advance. combined when the labor unions want to know everybody that works for a company, the nlrb is about to rule the management must give names and phone numbers and addresses. now, that is information that has been protected by the fourth amendment, the government cannot force anybody to give that away, unless the person voluntarily says you can give my information away. now, let s talk about the nlrb board. originally i don t know. splits between democrats and republicans it s either five democrats or four democrats and one republican but heavily filled with the president s appointees. this is the same board which the president filled with recess appointees he just declared the senate was in recess. they were actually meeting while he said this but he declared them in reese and put this on board in there.
while the nlrb was filled with these recess appointees it issued the same regulations which it pulled now and now the new nlrb, not filled with recess appointees, filled with appointees confirm by the senate, that made these new regulations joshes it s making my head explode. i can t believe i work for a company that is unioneyees. unions might get my name and phone number and address because the nlrb is requiring yes. prediction, the first federal judge to hear this will invalidate it. there are two supreme court opinions on point about giving out private information. the nixon administration tried to get the contributors to the ncaa. the government in the obama administration is trying to get contributors to ron paul groups. neither and the court says you can t do that. something came down, some news broke, about volkswagen. the unions withdrew their
during this process we heard about how we would have open talks, we heard about how they would take care of us and then they started their terror campaign. in march of 2012, those workers formed a union. the company refused to negotiate a contract with them. eventually the nlrb found the company s actions violated labor law. but that decision was issued by a board with recess appointees. and the d.c. court has cast all of those decisions, all of them issued by the board that featured those recess appointees who were only appointed because republicans refused to confirm anyone else. the d.c. court has cast all of those into legal limbo, meaning kathleen and millions of other workers are out of luck. joining me now is congresswoman linda sanchez, democrat from california. and larry cohen, president of communications workers of america. congresswoman, i ll begin with you. why did you send this letter today in why did you hold this press conference? what is different now? is this a break
issued by the board that featured those recess appointees who were only appointed because republicans refused to confirm anyone else. the d.c. court has cast all of those into legal limbo, meaning kathleen and millions of other workers are out of luck. joining me now is congresswoman linda sanchez, democrat from california. and larry cohen, president of communications workers of america. congresswoman, i ll begin with you. why did you send this letter today in why did you hold this press conference? what is different now? is this a breaking point? we ve just seen an incredible lack of cooperation between the republicans and the white house. and this is just the prime example of how they are hurting american workers and american families by obstructing the normal business of our government. and i think this can t be allowed to go on. it s reached a point where people s lives are being ruined because of it. there are workers similar to kathleen who have been awarded backpay and reinsta