Silicon Valley Congressman Ro Khanna took aim at his own party this week, accusing Democrats in the U.S. Senate of a bumbling failure to secure a majority on the federal board that safeguards workers’ rights to form unions and negotiate collectively for contracts with employers.
A procedural “unforced error by Democrats” has cost them a majority on the five-member National Labor Relations Board that would have lasted the first two years of President-elect Donald Trump’s term, Khanna charged.