The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace which represents many major trade associations—have brought a new challenge to the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's three Jan. 4 recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board. On March 15, the two groups filed a motion to intervene in the case of Noel Canning v. National Labor Relations Board, pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Noel Canning Corp. is a small canning and bottling business in Yakima, Wash. The NLRB ruled Feb. 8 it had violated the law by refusing to bargain with its Teamster employees. The merit of Noel Canning’s underlying case is… Read More