McDonald’s Loses Bid to Boot Labor Board Member Off Case (1)

The National Labor Relations Board rejected McDonald’s Corp.’s request to remove a Biden appointee to the board from an unfair labor practice case alleging the fast food giant jointly employed workers with a franchisee in San Francisco.

NLRB member David Prouty (D) conferred with the agency’s chief ethics officer and determined that he doesn’t have to recuse himself from the ongoing McDonald’s joint employer case due to his past work with a New York City-based affiliate of the Service Employees International Union, according to a board order issued Wednesday.

The ruling is a loss for McDonald’s. An SEIU-affiliated group filed ...