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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts) Thu Jan 25, 2018, 09:36 PM Jan 2018

Trump Appointee Is Trying to Squelch Us, Labor Board Staff Says

Source: New York Times

By NOAM SCHEIBER
JAN. 25, 2018

The Trump administration’s efforts to reverse the direction of federal labor policy appear to have accelerated with a proposal to demote the senior civil servants who resolve most labor cases.

Under the proposal, those civil servants — considered by many conservatives and employers to be biased toward labor — would answer to a small cadre of officials installed above them in the National Labor Relations Board’s hierarchy.

The proposal could pave the way for a pronounced shift in the day-to-day workings of the agency, making it friendlier to employers named in complaints of unfair labor practices or facing unionization drives.

Peter B. Robb, the agency’s general counsel and a Trump appointee, outlined the proposal this month in a conference call with the civil servants, known as regional directors, according to a letter sent by the directors to Mr. Robb.

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Trump Appointee Is Trying to Squelch Us, Labor Board Staff Says (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jan 2018 OP

If it's legal, I don't think they can do anything about it. Honeycombe8 Jan 2018 #1

And any union people who voted for Cheeto Benito The Mouth Jan 2018 #2

Oh right, because of jill stein. elleng Jan 2018 #3

And Susan Sarandon!!! QC Jan 2018 #4

Votes for Stein took votes from Clinton. Nader-Gore redux. But no one here did that. Honeycombe8 Jan 2018 #5

I remember how Obama and the Democrats made card check a big priority wobblie Jan 2018 #6

Of course. This was implicit in passage of power to the GOP. Hortensis Jan 2018 #7

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)

1. If it's legal, I don't think they can do anything about it.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Jan 25, 2018, 09:41 PM

Jan 2018

Elections have consequences. I hope those people in the country who voted for Jill Stein are seeing that. Every department and agency is being squelched and dismantled.

The Mouth

(3,150 posts)

2. And any union people who voted for Cheeto Benito

Reply to Honeycombe8 (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 25, 2018, 10:10 PM

Jan 2018

elleng

(130,964 posts)

3. Oh right, because of jill stein.

Reply to Honeycombe8 (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 25, 2018, 11:15 PM

Jan 2018

QC

(26,371 posts)

4. And Susan Sarandon!!!

Reply to elleng (Reply #3)

Thu Jan 25, 2018, 11:58 PM

Jan 2018

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)

5. Votes for Stein took votes from Clinton. Nader-Gore redux. But no one here did that.

Reply to elleng (Reply #3)

Thu Jan 25, 2018, 11:58 PM

Jan 2018

I mean, this is a Democratic Party site.

wobblie

(61 posts)

6. I remember how Obama and the Democrats made card check a big priority

Reply to Honeycombe8 (Reply #1)

Fri Jan 26, 2018, 07:10 AM

Jan 2018

Not--Said he would walk in our picket lines--not.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

7. Of course. This was implicit in passage of power to the GOP.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Fri Jan 26, 2018, 09:36 AM

Jan 2018

Dismantling, not just impeding, our systems is being carried out all through the federal government.

And it's also been happening in the 26 states similarly governed by Republican trifectas.

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