McDonald’s Labor Case Gets Political

Attorneys for McDonald’s recently fired off a strongly worded missive against a former Bush White House ethics chief who said two GOP members of the National Labor Relations Board should sit out a case against the fast food giant.

The company’s lawyers describe Richard Painter as a “recently failed Democratic Senate candidate” in their Oct. 9 letter, aimed at convincing the pair of Trump appointees to stay on the case. They ask the NLRB to consider Painter’s career as a “cable news talking head” and his “anti-Trump platform” during an unsuccessful bid for a Senate seat, including calls for the ...