Absolutely dispiriting. With an opportunity to lock in their majority on the NLRB until 2026, Dems needlessly delayed the vote then forgot to get word to Harris in time to break the deadlock. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/... - ThreadSky

jakerosenfeld.bsky.social • 35 days ago

Absolutely dispiriting. With an opportunity to lock in their majority on the NLRB until 2026, Dems needlessly delayed the vote then forgot to get word to Harris in time to break the deadlock.

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/01/19/what-labor-could-lose-abruzzo-nlrb/

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jakerosenfeld.bsky.social•35 days ago

In no election postmortem does an “emboldened NLRB” emerge as a possible culprit. This was an unnecessary error that will halt real progress in rebalancing the playing field for unions.

joshtpm.bsky.social•35 days ago

You sure about that? Both Sinema and Manchin ended up going against.

jakerosenfeld.bsky.social•35 days ago

Ro Khanna says there was a window to push it through - but he might be wrong!

https://truthout.org/articles/inexcusable-khanna-explains-how-democrats-failed-to-trump-proof-labor-board/

joshtpm.bsky.social•35 days ago

I'm not certain I'm right either. But I was watching this pretty closely at the time. And it was happening but then Sinema and Manchin said no. And that was literally it. Harris became irrelevant. It's possible there was a window earlier. But I don't know why we'd assume those two wld have ...

joshtpm.bsky.social•35 days ago

2/ done anything differently. This seems like an effort to make this abt fecklessness or lazy scheduling when in fact they ran into the iron wall of opposition by those two. Again, possibly I have the details wrong but I don't think so.

jakerosenfeld.bsky.social•35 days ago

Certainly could be, and I understand why the post-political career aspirations of those two would lead to no votes. But if Kaufman's reporting and Khanna's account are correct, then it does point in the direction of dropping the ball.

drgdave.bsky.social•35 days ago

That was my understanding as well.

chaplainjohn.medsky.social•35 days ago

This article is bullshit, ignores actual context, and starts with a lie that Biden abandoned the railroad workers.

If you are going to try to promote nihilism and rewrite history, you can do better than this.

Biden did his job. Manchin and Sinema did not.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5035142-senate-blocks-nlrb-re-nomination/

optimisticdoomer.bsky.social•35 days ago

There was no deadlock as the vote hadn't ended. That's what the extension was for, which allowed the last votes to be cast, making it not a tie. There was no "forgetting" to tell Harris because she had no role before an actual tie occurred.

optimisticdoomer.bsky.social•35 days ago

Ro Khanna is the one pushing this narrative, but he's also the one gleefully looking to DOGE for defense cuts, so we know he has little basis in reality.

peltast1.bsky.social•35 days ago

You misspelled "Schumer intentionally tanked the vote".

sweetbobby.bsky.social•35 days ago

garyldenton.bsky.social•35 days ago

There wasn't a deadlock. Harris could not have passed it.

ottersimple.bsky.social•35 days ago

The purpose of a system is what it does.

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