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Print this article One of Joe Biden’s first actions as president was to begin to fulfill his promise to be “the most pro-union president you’ve ever seen” and fire Peter Robb, the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board. This was an unusual act for a new president, but Robb’s sacking was of great symbolic importance. Forty years ago next week, Peter Robb played a leading role in one of Ronald Reagan’s most important domestic victories: firing the striking air traffic controllers. Reagan’s lesson is one that Biden wouldn’t dare heed, and that is a lesson we can l...

Scabby, the Chicago-born giant inflatable protest rat, spared by National Labor Relations Board Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune © Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune Several inflatable rats outside of a building on the 100 block of West Washington Street in Chicago's Loop on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. Created in Chicago nearly 30 years ago, Scabby, the giant inflatable union protest rat that has become a fixture at picket lines, was protected by the National Labor Relations Board in a ruling Wednesday. Threatened with extermination for allegedly scaring away attendees at an India...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: As we reported here and here, there are several challenges to the authority of the Acting General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, Peter Sung Ohr, given President Biden’s unprecedented move of terminating the sitting General Counsel, Peter Robb, in January 2021. One recent challenge to the Acting General Counsel’s authority was brought before the District Court of New Jersey in response to the Board’s petition for an injunction under Section 10(j) of the National Labor Relations Act in a pending unfair labor prac...

Friday, July 16, 2021 Dems to Push PRO Act in Massive Legislative Package. Congressional Democrats this week announced that they would unilaterally advance a $3.5 trillion “human infrastructure” package (providing for paid family and medical leave, Medicare expansion, and universal prekindergarten education, among other things) along with a bipartisan “traditional infrastructure” package (addressing roads, bridges, passenger and freight rail, waterways, etc.) in the coming weeks. Here is what’s happening. Process matters. First, the infrastructure “deal” is an agreem...

ADVERTISEMENT Employment Authority: COVID Shots At Work & Noncompetes Law360 (July 9, 2021, 10:28 PM EDT) -- Law360 Employment Authority covers the biggest employment cases and trends. Catch up this week with a look at President Joe Biden's call for employers to offer COVID-19 vaccinations at worksites; his new executive order on noncompete agreements; and how the fight over the firing of former NLRB general counsel Peter Robb is either heating up or stalling, depending on whom you ask. Find these stories and more great labor and employment law coverage in Law360 Employment Authority. Take ad...