21 hours ago · Former NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox has sued over her unprecedented removal from the board by President Donald Trump, in a case that could test the limits of presidential authority over independent agencies.. Wilcox said her termination violated the National Labor Relations Act’s requirement that the president can fire National Labor Relations Board members only “upon notice and hearing, for ...

Jan 28, 2025 · 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 ...

20 hours ago · Trump broke with precedent by removing Gwynne Wilcox, a Democrat, from her seat on the five-member National Labor Relations Board on Jan. 27. Board members serve five-year terms, and Wilcox’s was supposed to run through August 2028.

16 hours ago · Former Democratic National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox sued U.S. President Donald Trump in federal court Wednesday over her dismissal from the NLRB in late January.. Wilcox was first appointed to the body—which safeguards private sector workers' rights to organize—in 2021 by then-President Joe Biden and was re-confirmed for a five-year term by the Senate in 2023.

1 day ago · Former National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox sued the Trump administration on Wednesday over her abrupt removal from the agency last week. “The President’s removal of Ms. Wilcox ...

19 hours ago · An ex-member of the National Labor Relations Board, whom President Trump fired last month, filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging her dismissal and asking a federal court to reinstate her to the board.. Why it matters: The suit, filed by Gwynne Wilcox, comes as the agency is without the quorum it needs to fulfill its role enforcing the nation's labor laws — …

20 hours ago · Former National Labor Relations Board member sues Trump for her firing. Gwynne Wilcox’s lawsuit is the first to challenge the president’s ouster of several members of independent boards ...

Jan 28, 2025 · 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. ...

Jan 28, 2025 · 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 ...

Jan 28, 2025 · 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 ...