Politics

Trump Fires Labor Leaders and Sets Up Legal Fight

UNHAPPY EXIT

“I will be pursuing all legal avenues to challenge my removal, which violates long-standing Supreme Court precedent,” board member Gwynne Wilcox said.

Gwynne Wilcox
National Labor Relations Board

President Donald Trump has ousted two members of the U.S. labor board, in a move that the agency said effectively shut down its operations. National Labor Relations Board general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo and board member Gwynne Wilcox, whose position was set to run through August 2028, said they were let go of the agency Monday evening, NPR reported. “As the first Black woman board member, I brought a unique perspective that I believe will be lost upon my unprecedented and illegal removal,” Wilcox said in a statement to Bloomberg News. “I will be pursuing all legal avenues to challenge my removal, which violates long-standing Supreme Court precedent.” The board of five members was already experiencing two vacancies prior to Wilcox’s ouster and so now the agency is left without the minimum to issue resolutions in routine cases, let alone others of growing importance in the Trump administration.

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