Scott Brown Votes Against Workers

In due time, the people of Massachusetts will see just how full of shit Scott Brown was on the campaign trail.

Yesterday, new Senator Scott Brown voted in lockstep with his Republican colleagues and two Democrats to block President Obama’s pick for the National Labor Relations Board. The nomination of Craig Becker—a lawyer for the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union—was effectively killed when the Senate failed to muster the sixty votes necessary to end debate on the nomination in order to take an up-and-down vote. Becker is viewed as a threat by the GOP because, among other reasons, he favors card check. Card check is considered “controversial” because it allows a majority of members in a bargaining unit to sign cards authorizing the formation of a union. And because Republicans love big business and hate unions—i.e., American workers—to them, Becker is bad news. They are also claiming that Becker would bring a “personal agenda” to the NLRB, which is another way of saying he’d stick to his convictions about looking out for the welfare of working class Americans.

So thank you, Scott Brown, for bravely casting a vote against the working people of America.

The minority has spoken.

- Max Canning