NLRB Watchdog Condemns Bias Probe as Attack on His Authority

The National Labor Relations Board’s political leader and its inspector general are locked in a standoff over pending discrimination complaints against the inspector general and an unanswered legal question he’s raising in his defense: Who has the power to watch the watchdog?

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which investigates workplace discrimination complaints by federal workers and in the private sector, is reviewing three complaints from NLRB senior executives accusing agency Inspector General David Berry of discrimination and harassment. The complaints were previously reviewed by equal employment opportunity investigators within the NLRB as well as an oversight body of federal ...