Awww,
the Chamber of Commerce has a sad. While Senate Republicans successfully blocked Richard Griffin and Sharon Block, President Obama's original nominees to the National Labor Relations Board, that doesn't mean they got the business-over-workers replacement nominees of their dreams out of the filibuster deal:
Business can’t breathe easy, because [new nominees Nancy] Schiffer, 63, and [Kent] Hirozawa, 58, have views on labor issues that are similar to the positions of the candidates they would succeed, said Randel Johnson, senior vice president at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
“They are both pro-union and they will likely follow the same tack as the people that they replace,” Johnson said yesterday in an interview. “Business faces some tough battles in front of the newly appointed board.”
So Republicans blocked qualified nominees, forcing Obama to use recess appointments. Then they refused to confirm the recess-appointed members. Then they agreed, as part of a filibuster deal, to let the president choose new nominees, which led to Nancy Schiffer and Kent Hirozawa—who are also people Republicans would want to block if doing so wouldn't push Democrats back toward real rules reform—being on the path to confirmation.
It wasn't a total loss for Republicans, though. They managed to drag the NLRB into court, put the decisions made with recess appointees on the board into doubt, and created delays and uncertainty for workers waiting for justice. So that's a Republican goal met, even if it looks set to end in bitter tears of defeat.