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Friday, April 30, 2021 B iden Releases American Families Plan. This week, the White House released an outline of its American Families Plan, which is being touted as the second phase of the administration’s infrastructure proposal (dubbed the “American Jobs Plan”). The American Families Plan would invest $1.8 trillion in education (including training for teachers), federal nutrition programs, childcare, and extending tax credits. Like the infrastructure proposal, the American Families Plan is not a bill (yet), but will rather serve as a first step in what is sure to be a len...

Biden Nominee Recommended Unprecedented Firing of Labor Arbiter Abruzzo looking to fill vacancy left by NLRB official's ouster Biden nominee Jennifer Abruzzo / YouTube screenshot Graham Piro • April 29, 2021 5:10 pm SHARE A major Biden nominee admitted to lawmakers on Thursday that she urged the president to take the unprecedented step of firing the nation's top federal labor prosecutor, creating the vacancy that she now hopes to fill. Jennifer Abruzzo, nominee for general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), told senators she was part of a team that recommended gener...

ADVERTISEMENT NLRB Says Fight Over Acting GC's Appointment Up To Courts Law360 (April 30, 2021, 4:58 PM EDT) -- The National Labor Relations Board declined Friday to resolve whether President Joe Biden's replacement of the agency's general counsel violated federal labor law and the Constitution, saying the high-profile dispute over the prosecutor's authority is best left to the courts. The unanimous decision in a case involving a broadcast employees' union marks the board's first substantive ruling on Biden's decision to remove former general counsel Peter Robb from office months before his ...

ADVERTISEMENT Sens. Press NLRB GC Pick On Robb Firing, Key Labor Issues Law360 (April 29, 2021, 4:38 PM EDT) -- President Joe Biden's nominee to be the National Labor Relations Board's general counsel told senators Thursday that she was indirectly involved in recommending Biden fire the board's former general counsel, Peter Robb, and that she's eager to lead the agency as a neutral enforcer of federal labor law. Thursday's hearing of the chamber's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee started with fireworks when Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., immediately questioned Jennifer Abruzzo abo...