Gwynne Wilcox said her removal from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) was a “blatant violation” of the National Labor Relations Act in a lawsuit against the president and Marvin Kaplan, whom Trump installed to chair the watchdog.
Dismissed labor official sues Trump and NLRB chair over firing Gwynne Wilcox says her dismissal from National Labor Relations Board was ‘blatant violation’ of law.
Wilma B Liebman, who chaired the NLRB from 2009 to 2011, under Barack Obama, and before that served as a board member under Bill Clinton and George W Bush, called Wilcox’s termination “brazen and shocking, contrary to long-existing supreme court precedent, the clear language of the statute (the NLRA), and decades of custom”.
Wilcox was dismissed for a “blatantly political purpose that flies in the face of the NLRB’s independent status”, the filing states, noting that the president failed to cite examples of “neglect of duty or malfeasance in office”, as required when firing the agency’s board members.
Wilcox’s abrupt departure left the board with only two members, short of the quorum of three which the NLRB needs to issue significant decisions on US labor disputes.
