President Donald Trump has removed a Democratic member of the U.S. National Labor Relations Board from office, an unprecedented move that will escalate an ongoing legal battle over the scope of the president's powers to control federal agencies.
The unprecedented moves leave the agencies unable to conduct even routine business and are likely to spur legal challenges.
Suppressing unions to favor big business is not popular or populist. is Trump going to far? Union approval is at an all time high.
President Donald Trump has expectedly fired Jennifer Abruzzo, the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), and unexpectedly
Democratic NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox called her removal “unprecedented and illegal” and vowed to challenge the decision.
Donald Trump is testing the limits of his power yet again—this time with the firing of multiple people on the National Labor Relations Board.
Some agency employees who President Donald Trump terminated from their leadership roles Monday night are now “considering legal options.”
It’s been a little more than a week since Inauguration Day, but the seismic shifts of presidential change in Washington, D.C. continue, now extending to and impacting the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board).
As part of the flurry of executive actions taken during the first week of his administration, President Donald Trump has terminated the
Donald Trump is rolling out a blitz of attacks on workers in hopes of paralyzing organized labor’s energy to fight back. But unions can only survive this onslaught by fighting, not by burying their heads in the sand.
President Trump continued to make waves just over a week into his presidency with his decision earlier this week to fire the chair of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Gwynne Wilcox. This unprecedented decision came alongside Trump’s firing of NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo.