Biden’s Top Labor Lawyer Will ‘Fully Use’ Enforcement Arsenal

Within hours of President Joe Biden’s inauguration in January, his administration did something unusual: It told the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, a former management-side attorney scheduled to serve until fall, that he could either resign that day or get fired. When the Donald Trump appointee, Peter Robb, refused to step down, Biden removed and replaced him, first with a stand-in and then with Jennifer Abruzzo, a former union attorney and agency veteran, who’s now in her fifth month holding one of the government’s most pivotal workplace positions.

Abruzzo, 58, enforces the ...