NLRB Faces Ethics Questions on Plan to Trim Grad Student Rights

The National Labor Relations Board faces fresh ethics questions from a high-ranking Senate Democrat about the agency’s expansive slate of formal regulatory action.

Sen. Patty Murray, the ranking Democrat on the panel that oversees the NLRB, said member Marvin Kaplan likely has a conflict of interest in the board’s proposal to limit union rights for graduate student employees.

The NLRB’s proposal would reverse an Obama-era holding in a case involving the Trustees of Columbia University in New York City. Kaplan likely has a conflict of interest in the rulemaking because his wife is employed by the university’s trustees, Murray ...