WASHINGTONBy a strictly party-line vote all 50 voting Republicans for, all 46 voting Democrats and both independents against the Senate gave Republicans a National Labor Relations Board majority by naming corporate attorney John Ring to its sole vacant seat.
Organized labor did not flatly oppose Rings nomination, but questioned whether he could set aside his pro-corporate track past to implement federal labor laws goals of encouraging collective bargaining and labor-management peace.