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US Senate approves bill to control labor board in Boeing Case

The House moved forward to pass a to stopthe National Labor Relations Board from blocking Boeing in its way to operate a new aircraft assembly line in South Carolina. The new venture is worth $750 million.

The bill has been supported by the Republican diplomats in the House and received a party-line vote of 238 to 186. This bill has been considered as a milestone with regard to reducing unemployment and job cuts in the United States. The country’s economy is already staggering with aftermaths of recession and severe job cuts.

The Republicans opposed labor board call against Boeing citing that it was crossing its jurisdiction and should not dictate over the functioning of companies. However the ruling Democrats and many other union leaders severely criticized the bill saying that if it becomes a law, it would hamper the independence of federal agency and rather favor private companies like Boing.

They also pointed out that Boing is among major lobbying forces and political donors. This legislation would also bar the labor board from imposing its rules over any employer regarding job cuts, transfer of employees or operations under any circumstances.

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Reps Cautioned Obama on Job Situation

Congress woman on the platform of Democrat party has criticized President Obama on job situation in the country. The law maker advised the president to go down to the state and local levels to see the pains and sufferings the people are going through as a result of job situation in the country.

The congress woman was speaking when she observed thousands of job seekers line up in the heat at job fair that was organized at a technical college in Atlanta. It was the congressional black caucus that planned the job fair.

Speaking on the unemployment situation in the country Democrat Rep Maxine Walters of California said he was stunned by number of people that attended the job fair. He said that he was expecting about five hundred people to the fair but it turned out that thousand of job seekers graced the occasion.

The congresswoman told reporters that black voters have given her the permission to criticize president Barak Obama administration’s policy on job creation. She said that she is not just criticizing the president but that she tries to engage more people to help the president to have a clear understanding of the pain people are going through as a result of job situation in the country.

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Alaska Supreme Court to decide over senate seat dispute

Lisa Murkowski, Joe Miller,

Anchorage:  The dispute over a seat in the US Senate for Alaska has yet not been solved and finally reached to Supreme Curt. Joe Miller a Republican contestant appealed to the Supreme Court against a lower court’s judgment declaring his political rival Senator Lisa Murkowski as victorious.

Senator Lisa Murkowski had started a campaign against Joe Miller following his defeat in the Republican primary polls. Mr. Miller has appealed against Alaskan court’s decision to overrule his challenge to counting of write –in ballots for Ms. Murkowski.

The appealer Miller wants the Supreme Court to nullify poll results and ensure for fair counting of ballots.

Miller’s lawyer Michael Morley, stated that the state court has misinterpreted law in justifying Ms Murkowski’s victory on the basis of write-in ballots.

The state, court however, allowed for ballots that had many misspellings and favored to Ms. Murkowski’s tally To declarer her a winner.

Scott Kendall, Ms. Murkowski’s lawyer said that Mr. Miller’s legal challenge was based on false grounds. Judge Daniel E. Winfree, faulted Ms Murkowski’s lawyer for calling the case false and supported Miller’s appeal for justice. The justice also clarified that there was no reevaluation of challenged ballots to favor Mr. Miller.

Alaska’ state assistant attorney general, Joanne Grace, justified Mr. Miller’s appeal and stressed that the court should not infer that the will of the Legislature in making the law was to disenfranchise voters.