Abruzzo’s Plan to Overhaul NLRB Precedent Still in Need of Cases

National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo is still lacking cases she can use to challenge certain precedents as part of her campaign to shift federal labor law to benefit workers and unions.

NLRB case law on intermittent strikes, access to employer property, and a dozen other legal issues remain on Abruzzo’s list of precedents she wants the board to overturn, yet don’t have a case where that’s a possibility, she said Wednesday at an American Bar Association conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Abruzzo targeted 53 separate issues for changes in precedent in a memorandum issued a few ...