Labor Board Moves Spark Internal Discord

Career staffers at the federal labor board have launched a broad effort against a series of proposals made to revamp the agency by the board’s prosecutor, according to letters and internal memos obtained by Bloomberg Law.

Two groups of senior managers and a pair of organizations representing the National Labor Relations Board’s front-line staff sent separate letters to NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb late last week. One of the NLRB unions told Robb that some of his case processing and regional office overhaul proposals demonstrate “an interest in destroying the Agency from the inside.”

The internal debate over the moves ...