The same week the House passed legislation limiting the National Labor Relations Board’s enforcement authority, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) introduced a bill that would eliminate the Board entirely. The National Labor Relations Reorganization Act of 2011 (H.R. 2926) would disband the NLRB and transfer its enforcement authority to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and its oversight of representation elections to the Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS). Continue reading this entry at Littler's Washington DC Employment Law Update.