Chamber targeting labor board in television ads

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is launching a television campaign against the Obama administration over controversial labor policies.

The National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) is issuing regulations that would “kill jobs,” the advertisement warns. The powerful business lobby is looking to pressure lawmakers into blocking some of these controversial labor policies.

The ad criticizes the NLRB’s so-called ambush elections that would speed up the process by which employees can organize a union. It also points to the joint-employer policy that would hold companies accountable for labor violations committed by their business partners.

It is running exclusively in the Washington, D.C., area.

“American businesses put millions of us to work, but political appointees at the NLRB could kill new jobs,” the ad says. “The NLRB tried to close a plant with nearly 4,000 good-paying jobs, because the workers were’t union. They want to give unions your home phone number and email address, and change the rules to make businesses liable for workers they don’t even employ, encouraging more lawsuits. Tell Congress it’s time to reign in the NLRB.”

Republicans are pushing measures that would block the NLRB from using government funds to implement these controversial regulations.