Top Labor Board Lawyer Withdraws Slew of Biden-Era Policy Memos

The Trump administration’s acting NLRB general counsel has rolled back vast swaths of the agency’s pro-worker enforcement policies from the Biden era.

Acting General Counsel William Cowen on Friday withdrew more then two-dozen memos penned by former GC Jennifer Abruzzo, including directives arguing that student-athletes have organizing rights and noncompete agreements violate federal labor law.

Cowen’s rescission order follows a traditional pattern at the National Labor Relations Board when there’s a change in partisan control of the White House. That flip-flopping has grown more accelerated, with the last two incoming presidents firing the NLRB general counsels chosen by their predecessors. ...