Last night President Trump fired multiple people at the NLRB, creating a situation in which the board no longer has a quorum to operate. The NLRB is effectively paralyzed until new members are added.
It wasn’t a surprise when President Trump fired National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo late Monday. She was a Biden appointee who had used the agency to expand workers’ rights.
But Trump went further, also firing Democratic board member Gwynne Wilcox in an unprecedented move that she has vowed to fight in court.
Due to existing vacancies, Wilcox’s ouster leaves the board with just two members, short of the quorum it needs to adjudicate even routine cases. (The board, when fully staffed, has five members.)
Trump did the same thing at the EEOC with the same result.
Charlotte Burrows, former EEOC chairwoman, and Jocelyn Samuels, a former EEOC…
