Where it stands: Under the national labor law, board members can only be fired for neglect of duty or malfeasance. Wilcox had served as acting board chair just for a few days at the end of the ...

2 days ago · Since their appointments in 2021, Wilcox and Abruzzo had taken broad views of the protections labor law offers workers. Wilcox, a former union lawyer, wrote that as the first Black woman to serve ...

2 days ago · President Trump fired acting chair of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Democrat Gwynne Wilcox late Monday night, she told Axios. He also fired the general counsel of the labor board, Jennifer Abruzzo, a strong advocate for unionization. The big picture: Together the dismissals signal a broad purge at the nation's labor regulator, which had been an exceptionally strong ally to workers ...

2 days ago · President Donald Trump fired National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox in an unprecedented personnel move that prevents the board from deciding cases and appears to violate federal law. Trump’s partisan purge of Democratic NLRB officials in the late hours of Monday targeted Wilcox, the first Black woman to serve on the board. ...

2 days ago · Wilcox’s term as a board member was set to run through August 2028. A labor board spokesperson confirmed Abruzzo’s removal, while a spokesperson for Wilcox confirmed hers. Wilcox said in a statement that she believes her unprecedented firing, which was first reported by Bloomberg, violates “long-standing Supreme Court precedent.”

2 days ago · Wilcox, a former union lawyer, wrote that as the first Black woman to serve on the labor board, "I brought a unique perspective that I believe will be lost." As the agency's prosecutor, Abruzzo worked to remove barriers to organizing, most recently winning a board ruling outlawing "captive audience" meetings, or mandatory meetings at which ...

2 days ago · Abruzzo's office had convinced Wilcox and other board members to create a new path for unions to represent workers, to ban mandatory meetings to discourage unionizing, and to expand the type of ...

2 days ago · Ms. Wilcox said she learned she had been fired in an email from the White House at 10:38 p.m. addressed to her and Ms. Abruzzo. ... Presidents have traditionally left labor board members to serve ...

2 days ago · Abruzzo's office had convinced Wilcox and other board members to create a new path for unions to represent workers, to ban mandatory meetings to discourage unionizing, and to expand the type of ...

2 days ago · Jennifer Abruzzo, the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, said she was fired via email late on Monday. Gwynne Wilcox , who was one of the labor board’s two Democratic members ...