Trump Claims Broad Power to Ax NLRB Members Despite Legal Shield

President Donald Trump said federal labor law’s shield protecting National Labor Relations Board members from being fired without cause “does not operate as a restriction on my ability to remove Board members.”

Trump set forth his legal and policy justifications for sacking NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox and General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo in a letter to the two Democratic officials reviewed by Bloomberg Law.

The president’s legal case for the unprecedented termination of Wilcox, the first Black woman to serve as an NLRB member, appears guaranteed to be tested in federal court. Such a case could provide the US Supreme Court ...