The National Labor Relations Board’s new top lawyer broke with tradition and declined to preview her goals for changing federal labor law at the outset of her term.
NLRB General Counsel Crystal Carey said in a memo Wednesday that she decided against immediately issuing a directive instructing regional offices to submit to headquarters cases related to specific legal precedents. She said her “priority is to address the backlog of cases, not add to it.”
Carey’s memo is a departure from her predecessors, underscoring the challenge presented by the enormous case backlog and understaffing at the NLRB.
Urgency around the backlog ...
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