President Trump continued to make waves just over a week into his presidency with his decision earlier this week to fire the chair of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Gwynne Wilcox. This unprecedented decision came alongside Trump’s firing of NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo.

His unlawful purge of the National Labor Relations Board on Monday serves all three goals at once. With these firings, Trump has paralyzed the board, asserted control over its agenda, and engineered a legal showdown over the scope of his constitutional authority.

President Trump terminated Jennifer Abruzzo, the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, and Board Member

The president’s recent discharge of National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) Member Gwynne Wilcox means the Board

The firing of National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) chair Gwynne Wilcox has effectively crippled the watchdog agency, with labor groups warning of widespread impacts for unions across the U.S.

President Trump fired two Democratic EEOC commissioners and an NLRB board member, hobbling two independent agencies that are tasked with enforcing worker protections.

President Donald Trump's firing of Gwynne Wilcox spurred the now former NLRB member to say she will be "pursuing all legal avenues" to challenge her removal from the five-member board three years before her term was set to expire,

(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump has fired two Democratic officials at the National Labor Relations Board, a major shakeup that will bring hundreds of cases accusing companies of unlawful labor practices to a standstill and paves the way for Republican control of the agency.

The move was criticized as illegal by congressional Democrats and could result in backlogs for the labor board, which now lacks a quorum.

While courts have upheld the president's authority to remove the NLRB's general counsel, the National Labor Relations Act states that board members ... she wrote. A 1935 Supreme Court case known ...

President Donald Trump has moved to fire Democratic members of two independent federal commissions, an extraordinary break from decades of legal precedent that promises to hand Republicans control

President Trump on Monday fired two leaders of the National Labor Relations Board, in a major attack on workers’ rights and labor unions. Trump’s surprise removal of Democratic NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox came even though federal law says that board members can only be fired for neglect or malfeasance.