Senate Rescinds Obama’s Blacklist Rule

The Washington Free Beacon discusses the Department of Labor’s blacklisting rule with Trey Kovacs. 

Labor law experts on both sides of the union divide recognized that the executive order would benefit unions. Veteran union attorney Robert Schwartz wrote in a blog post that it provided “unions unprecedented new leverage against companies” because they could potentially derail contract opportunities with an allegation no matter how specious. Trey Kovacs, a labor law expert at the pro-free market Competitive Enterprise Institute, agreed with Schwartz’s analysis.

“The rule may provide incentive to labor unions, attempting to organize a workplace, to file frivolous labor-related charges against companies that bid on federal contractors in order to extract favorable union election conditions,” he said in a post.

Read the full article at The Washington Free Beacon.