The Capital Strike enters a new, more dangerous phase

With the Constitution Bending (not even recess) appointments of three new members to the NLRB, the Obama administration has served notice that it will attempt to achieve administratively what it could not achieve legislatively:  namely a significant expansion of union power and representation.  The result will be chaos as unions rush to take advantage of a very biased NLRB ahead of the inevitable take over of the Senate by Republicans next year.

The impact on employment?  Employers will have a new and remarkably corrupt reason to sit on their hands.  The capital strike will continue.  Stay tuned for more economically destructive rent seeking by an administration frantically ransacking the Federal Government for more ways to reward its friends before the next election.  Very Chicago.

Politico breaks the news that the president has appointed no fewer than three members to the activist National Labor Relations Board:

President Barack Obama made more controversial recess appointments Wednesday, filling three open seats on the National Labor Relations Board just hours after he appointed Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
The three appointees — Sharon Block, Terence F. Flynn, and Richard Griffin — will take their place on a board that has been sharply attacked by Republicans for favoring labor.

“The American people deserve to have qualified public servants fighting for them every day – whether it is to enforce new consumer protections or uphold the rights of working Americans,” Obama said in announcing the appointments.

This is the president declaring war on the House and Senate GOP. Expect lots of power-grabbing executive orders to follow.