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Memorandum of Disapproval Regarding S.J. Res. 8
MEMORANDUM OF DISAPPROVAL
S.J. Res. 8 would overturn the National Labor Relations Board's recently issued “representation case procedures” rule and block modest but overdue reforms to simplify and streamline private sector union elections. Accordingly, I am withholding my approval of this resolution. (The Pocket Veto Case, 279 U.S. 655 (1929)).
Workers need a strong voice in the workplace and the economy to protect and grow our Nation's middle class. Unions have played a vital role in giving workers that voice, allowing workers to organize together for higher wages, better working conditions, and the benefits and protections that most workers take for granted today. Workers deserve a level playing field that lets them freely choose to make their voices heard, and this requires fair and streamlined procedures for determining whether to have unions as their bargaining representative. Because this resolution seeks to undermine a streamlined democratic process that allows American workers to freely choose to make their voices heard, I cannot support it.
To leave no doubt that the resolution is being vetoed, in addition to withholding my signature, I am returning S.J. Res. 8 to the Secretary of the Senate, along with this Memorandum of Disapproval.
BARACK OBAMA
THE WHITE HOUSE,
March 31, 2015.
Source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/03/31/memorandum-disapproval-regarding-sj-res-8
