Richard Trumka Jr. got notice that President Donald Trump is firing him from the Consumer Product Safety Commission, a move that the son of a former labor union leader said he’ll challenge in court as violating the agency’s independence.
Trumka—whose late father Richard Trumka was president of the AFL-CIO—plans to sue to block his removal and serve out his seven-year term through October 2028, he said Friday in a statement posted to social media. The president also is attempting to fire the other two Democratic members of the CPSC, according to a statement released by Alexander Hoehn-Saric, one of those ...
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