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The Biden administration has fired National Labor Relations Board deputy general counsel Alice B. Stock, an agency spokesperson said Thursday, just one day after the president canned the board's top prosecutor who had appointed Stock to the role.

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: President Joe Biden began his election campaign in a union hall in Pittsburgh and pledged on the eve of the election to be “the most pro-union president you’ve even seen.” As immediate evidence of his intent to make good on that pledge, it is being reported that one of his first acts as president (the email taking this action was apparently sent at 12:23 p.m. on January 20, 2021) was to ask for the resignation of National Labor ...

The Robb firing is an early indicator of Biden’s top priorities. No NLRB general counsel had ever been fired, and the Biden White House provided no cause for the action. Mr. Robb pointed all this out in a return letter and respectfully declined to step down. So Mr. Biden ("we must end this uncivil war") canned him. For four years, the media and Democrats cast every action of the Trump administration as something law-breaking or verging on a constitutional crisis. This week’s headlines, by c...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: As HR Legalist predicted, President Biden is taking steps to swing the pendulum in an employee-friendly direction. While implementing substantive changes may take some time in light of the administrative procedures required, President Biden’s actions in his first few hours in office show that meaningful changes are on the way. In his first few days as Commander-in-Chief, President Biden has taken two particularly notable actions. Fi...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is trying to delay a union vote in Bessemer, Alabama, appealing a US labor board decision to allow 6,000 warehouse workers to vote by mail on unionization. The company is arguing for the election to be held in person, according to documents filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Thursday. Amazon’s argument is that mail-in voting decreases voter turnout. It says the NLRB looked at the wrong COVID-19 infection data when determining h...

President Joe Bidens scouring start He signals a goal of eradicating every trace of the Trump era from U.S. memory.  By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times (TNS) January 22, 2021 — 11:28am Text size Copy shortlink: President Joe Biden has an answer for that: Not to worry. In the very first executive orders of his presidency, Biden has signaled that he intends to do more than merely repeal and reverse Trumps policies. His plan is to ...

January 22, 2021 President Joe Biden proclaimed Inauguration Day “A National Day Of Unity” on Wednesday, following his first presidential address on Capitol Hill that featured a theme of unity while vilifying dissenters from the progressive agenda as white supremacists. “To overcome these challenges, to restore the soul and secure the future of America requires so much more than words. It requires the most elusive of all things in democracy: unity, unity,” Biden declared in his inaugura...

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President Biden removes key figure at National Labor Relations Board — union leaders rejoice MarketWatch 1/23/2021 © Getty Images Amid a flurry of first-day orders and actions, President Joe Biden’s administration showed the door to a top-ranking lawyer at a labor agency meant to guard against unfair labor practices for private-sector workers. The administration allegedly fired the National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel, Peter Robb, reportedly after he refused to resign acc...

Friday, January 22, 2021 On day one of his administration — and within hours of being sworn in — President Joe Biden made significant changes at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). After Peter Robb, the Board’s Trump-appointed general counsel (GC), refused a request to resign, Biden fired him. The following day, the Biden administration fired deputy general counsel Alice B. Stock after she, too, refused to resign from the Board. At the same time, Biden named Lauren McFerr...