NLRB Workers Go On Strike?

I know it sounds like a parody headline from Scrappleface, but this article is from FedSmith.com, describing the (ironic?) describing how the unionizing federal employees at the National Labor Relations Board are protesting recent decisions from the General Counsel (Ronald Meisburg).  From the article:

In an ongoing dispute at the NLRB caused by a decision by the Federal Labor Relations Authority, the Board's union issued a press release announcing its intention to picket and calling for the resignation of General Counsel Ronald Meisburg for acts that show "defiance of Federal Law and contempt for the rights of his employees."

The union's press release quoting unnamed "union sources" (a little unusual since it's the union's press release) said it would engage in other protests involving public events Meisburg attends.  I don't know the GC's public events schedule but football, basketball and ice hockey seasons will certainly start before the case is decided.  If the General Counsel is a DC spots fan, it begs the question of whether the various player's associations will refuse to cross NLRBU's picket line in solidarity with their Federal union brothers and sisters.

For the exact nature of the dispute between the NLRB and the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), there are good background stories here and here.  Essentially, the FLRA has decreed that the NLRB has misinterpreted the law and taken an incorrect position towards its own employees.

-Dru Stevenson