Speaking of “uniquely unqualified to serve,” White House insiders are telling us that lawyer, Wells King, who was in charge of finding new Trump leadership for the National Labor Relations Board, may recommend himself to serve on the board or even serve as chairman.

Needless to say our spidey senses are tingling!

If true, and this gambit succeeds, King would be the youngest NLRB member ever and the first non-lawyer since the LBJ era to hold a board seat. And he’d be in a prime position to push the disastrous labor policies he wrote for Oren Cass’s faux-conservative “think tank” American Compass.

King told a podcast interviewer that “ideally,” union monopoly bargaining would occur at “essentially a sector level, or what’s often called sectoral bargaining.” This is a backdoor run around right to work laws that allow workers to negotiate their own contracts.

Most non-union employers wouldn’t voluntarily negotiate with union bosses who claim to represent every worker in their industry. Under King’s scheme, workers and employers would be forced to accept labor terms imposed by union bosses.

For this, and other reasons, our friends at National Right to Work strongly oppose King.

Worker freedom is already in decline.  Today, 95 percent of unionized workers never voted for the union that claims to represent them.  We doubt that Mr. King would do anything about that injustice.

The Hewlett Foundation, an American Compass funder, financed a Harvard report, called “Clean Slate for Worker Power: Building a Just Economy and Democracy.” This report advocates that sectoral bargaining becomes enforceable when just 10% of industry workers are unionized. See the threat to American prosperity?

Sources on Capitol Hill indicate Rand Paul will oppose Wells King in Committee. Hopefully this is true, because such a selection to the NLRB will nullify America’s Golden Age.