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Senate HELP Subcommittee assignments The Senate has yet to set the final vote on  Marty Walsh’s nomination to serve as Secretary of Labor. On Friday, March 5, the White House announced the following appointments: Pronita Gupta joins the White House as Special Assistant to the President for Labor and Workers. She more recently served as director of job quality for the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP).  Prior to joining CLASP, she served as the deputy director of the Women’s Bure...

Government Executive Get the latest on need-to-know topics for federal employees delivered to your inbox. email House Democrats Join Chorus Calling for Changes at Social Security The job security of the Trump-appointed administrator and deputy administrator of the Social Security Administration remains in doubt, as the Biden administration continues to oust holdover appointees elsewhere in the government. A group of senior House Democrats last week joined colleagues in the...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden was expected to fire Sharon Gustafson, the Trump-appointed general counsel of the EEOC, on Friday, according to a source with direct knowledge of the situation.

(The Center Square) – A Corpus Christi, Texas-based nurse is challenging the dismissal of her case by the National Labor Relations Boards Acting General Counsel, Peter Ohr, who she alleges

CORPUS CHRISTI - Nurse Marissa Zamora has just filed an opposition brief defending her case charging National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC) union bosses in her workplace with concealing a “neutrality agreement” struck in secret between union officials and HCA Holdings management that covers her hospital, according to a press release. The brief was filed at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) with free legal aid from National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation staff attorneys....

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Amazon Says Acting GC Cant Prosecute Unfair Labor Charge Law360 (March 3, 2021, 2:47 PM EST) -- Amazon told a National Labor Relations Board judge that the boards acting general counsel doesnt have authority to prosecute a case saying the company retaliated against an employee who raised group complaints about working conditions, joining other employers that have argued the prosecutor was unlawfully appointed. In an amended answer to an unfair labor practice complai...

March 1, 2021 7:03 p.m. President Biden on Sunday night raised brows when he tweeted a video appearing to offer his full-throated support of the unionization effort by Amazon warehouse staffers in Alabama — going further than all recent past presidents, on both sides of the aisle. Currently, more than 5,800 workers at an Amazon facility in Bessemer, Alabama are amid a seven-week voting period to decide whether they would like to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale and...

Monday, March 1, 2021 President Joe Biden summarily removed National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel (GC) Peter Robb from office on January 20, 2021, and removed Robb’s deputy, Alice Stock the following day. On January 25, 2021, the president named Peter Sung Ohr to be acting General Counsel. Ohr was the NLRB’s Chicago office Regional Director. Because President Biden subsequently nominated Jennifer Abruzzo to serve as GC, Ohr will continue to serve as acting GC pres...

Both his actions and his words are important.

President Biden hails Amazon workers pressing to unionize in Alabama in unusual sign of support Jay Greene, Eli Rosenberg © Jay Reeves/AP Tray Ragland, left, and Kim Hickerson of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union hold signs outside an Amazon facility Bessemer, Ala., where the union is trying to organize warehouse workers. SEATTLE — President Biden gave Amazon warehouse staff in Alabama fighting to join a union their biggest support yet, tweeting a video Sun...