Biden’s NLRB Picks Set Up Clash Over Agency Future If Trump Wins

President Joe Biden’s nominations to the National Labor Relations Board create the possibility that Democrats keep control of the board majority into 2026, even if Republican Donald Trump wins November’s presidential election.

The White House’s announcement Thursday that Biden renominated NLRB Chair Lauren McFerran and tapped Seyfarth Shaw LLP attorney Joshua Ditelberg to the open Republican seat was met with hostility from business advocates.

“President Biden is trying to hijack the NLRB in order to cement their radical policies under his administration into law,” Kristen Swearingen, head of the industry alliance Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, said in a statement. ...