Oh, I get it–so, when democracy threatens to advance in a very tiny way the rights of workers, the Republican member of the National Labor Relations Board takes a page from his ideological co-horts in the Senate and threatens to freeze any votes by going home:

The National Labor Relations Board’s sole Republican member has threatened to resign, a move that would block the board’s two Democrats from adopting rules to speed union-organizing elections.

If Republican Brian Hayes resigns within the next week, the five-member board, which has had two vacancies for months, won’t be able to adopt the proposed rule because it will lack a quorum. The board was expected to drop to two members anyway at the end of the year, when Democrat Craig Becker’s term expires. An imminent resignation by Mr. Hayes would block most board activity several weeks earlier than anticipated.

   Pathetic.