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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On January 20th, 2021, President Joe Biden summarily removed National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Peter Robb from office. Biden removed Robb’s deputy Alice Stock the following day.  As noted, these unprecedented moves were clearly meant to change direction from that of Trump administration appointees.  However, they left the NLRB without its legal advisor and without its prosecutorial arm. On January 25, 2021, th...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: National elections shape the nation’s labor policy. Soon after his inauguration, President Biden began a pro-union shift involving the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the federal agency responsible for governing union-management relations. A key player at the NLRB is its General Counsel – the head lawyer who enforces labor laws and shapes important policies. Peter Robb had been the NLRB General Counsel during most of the Tr...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: When Biden said he would be the greatest President the unions have ever seen, he apparently meant it.  Less than twenty-four hours after being sworn in, Biden has: removed John Ring as NLRB Chairman and appointed Lauren McFerran, the only Democratic NLRB member as the NLRB Chairperson;  terminated the NLRBs General Counsel, Peter Robb effective immediately, despite the fact that his term was not up until November 2021; and appointed...

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ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Shipping Co. Says NLRB Prosecutor Cant Act After GC Ouster Law360 (January 26, 2021, 11:58 AM EST) -- A shipping company filed possibly the first challenge to former National Labor Relations Board chief prosecutor Peter Robbs firing last week, saying the Office of the General Counsel lacks authority to prosecute labor violations following Robbs "unlawful removal." Shipper H&M International Transportation Inc. urged the NLRB to dismiss a suit alleging it committed a h...

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President Biden is quickly making good on his vow to be the most "pro-union" president in U.S. history, firing Trump appointees perceived as hostile to labor and making it official U.S. policy to promote union organizing and collective bargaining.

Biden is firing some top Trump holdovers, but in some cases, his hands may be tied Lisa Rein, Anne Gearan Replay Video UP NEXT President Biden is trying to shake a Trump hangover in the federal government by acting to remove some holdovers and install his own appointees, but a quiet push to salt federal agencies with Trump loyalists is complicating the new president’s effort to turn the page. The Biden team, showing a willingness to cut tenures short, moved quickly last ...

Dems, Union Leaders Cheer Biden’s Firing of Labor Board Lawyer Democratic lawmakers and their traditional labor union allies are cheering President Joe Biden’s firing of the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) general counsel even though Peter Robb’s four-year term had nine months left. House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott praised Biden in a statement issued Jan. 20 for seeking Robb’s resignation; Robb was fired after declining to resign. “It has taken just o...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: One day after a standoff between President Biden and NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb resulted in his unprecedented termination, President Biden fired the NLRB’s second-ranked attorney, NLRB Deputy General Counsel Alice Stock, according to a Bloomberg report.  Stock would have served as Acting NLRB General Counsel after Robb’s termination on January 20 th.  As of this posting, it is not clear who will be appointed to serve as Act...