The NLRB’s general counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, was also fired. The deputy general counsel, Jessica Rutter, is now serving as acting general counsel.
On Abruzzo’s watch, several corporations – including Elon Musk’s SpaceX, and Amazon – have
challenged the constitutionality of the NLRB, based on limitations of the president’s ability to remove members of the board.
The National Labor Relations Act
authorizes the president to remove members of the board only under narrow circumstances of negligence of duty or malfeasance, which has typically left board members to serve out their terms during presidential administration changes.
The NLRB “accomplished so much through our robust education, protection, and enforcement efforts,” Abruzzo said in a statement. “There’s no putting that genie back in the bottle.
“So, if the Agency does not fully effectuate its Congressional mandate in the future as we did during my tenure, I expect that workers with assistance from their advocates will take matters into their own hands in order to get well-deserved dignity and respect in the workplace, as well as a fair share of the significant value they add to their employer’s operations.”
Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO, the largest federation of unions in the US, representing 61 national and international unions, said: “President Trump’s firing of NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox, the first Black woman to serve on the board, is illegal and will have immediate consequences for working people.”
Trump’s decision “has effectively shut down” the NLRB’s operations, Shuler said, “leaving the workers it defends on their own in the face of union-busting and retaliation”.
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