Senate Panel OKs Biden NLRB Picks, Delays Vote on Wage Chief (1)

The Senate labor committee has signed off on President Joe Biden‘s two picks to fill National Labor Relations Board seats, but postponed a vote on David Weil for a second stint as the U.S. Labor Department’s wage-hour chief.

Gwynne Wilcox, a partner at the union-side firm Levy Ratner, and David Prouty, general counsel of Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ, were both advanced 13-9 on Wednesday, with GOP moderates Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Susan Collins (Maine) joining the committee’s 11 Democrats in voting yes, according to a statement from the panel.

A Democratic aide on the Senate ...