Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) introduced the Small Businesses Before Bureaucrats Act to decrease the size and scope of the authority of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and protect small businesses from big labor union special interests.

Senator Mullin’s Small Businesses Before Bureaucrats Act will bring the purview of the NLRB into the 21st century and provide relief to small businesses from NLRB oversight and intrusion. Though the NLRB was designed to be a balanced, impartial adjudicator, the agency has been weaponized in the past to undermine workers and job creators by bending the knee to big labor unions.

“Oklahoma is the proud home of nearly 400,000 small businesses,” said Senator Mullin. “Our job creators have been burdened for too long by the intrusion of the NLRB to advance big union priorities at the expense of small businesses across America. This is a commonsense measure that will rein in federal bureaucracy and ensure our entrepreneurs can operate their businesses as they see fit.”

Background:

• The NLRB currently has jurisdiction over any retail business with an annual revenue over $500,000 and any non-retail business with annual revenue over $50,000.
• These threshold limits were set in 1959 and have not been updated.
• Adjusted for inflation, $500,000 in 1959 is worth over $5 million today.

Full text of the ‘‘Small Businesses Before Bureaucrats’’ can be found here. 

###