Biden Fires NLRB’s Number Two Lawyer One Day After Her Boss (1)

President Joe Biden fired the second-highest-ranking attorney at the National Labor Relations Board a day after ousting her superior, leaving leadership of the agency’s legal arm in limbo as the new administration seeks to reorient the board away from the Trump administration’s business-centric focus.

Alice Stock assumed the role of acting general counsel following the Inauguration Day firing of the NLRB’s top attorney, Peter Robb, an agency spokesperson said in a statement late Thursday morning.

But the labor board was told later on Thursday that Stock too would be dismissed, effective at 5 p.m., the NLRB spokesperson said ...