{"id":49966,"date":"2020-02-20T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/?p=49966"},"modified":"2020-02-20T08:00:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T13:00:49","slug":"former-nlrb-head-talks-about-lasting-damage-to-labor-from-admins-policy-rollbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/former-nlrb-head-talks-about-lasting-damage-to-labor-from-admins-policy-rollbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NLRB head talks about lasting damage to labor from admin’s policy rollbacks","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
Wilma Liebman, a former chief of the National Labor Relations Board for three terms and a member of the board for more than a decade, described what she termed \u201ca stacked deck\u201d against American workers that has been assembled by the current presidential administration in an op-ed column published by The Morning Consult. Wilma Liebman, a former chief of the National Labor Relations Board for three terms and a member of the board for more than a decade, described what she termed \u201ca stacked deck\u201d against American workers that has been assembled by the current presidential administration in an op-ed column published by The Morning Consult. The term […]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":7,"featured_media":12851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,25],"tags":[356,3603,4475],"member_types":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nThe term of the lone Democrat on the NLRB expired in December, and there currently are three Republicans on the board.
\n\u201cThere is no one still inside the board with power to defend the statute that protects the right of American workers to improve working conditions by joining together,\u201d Liebman wrote.
\nUnder President Donald Trump\u2019s administration, Liebman describes a board that has reversed decades of precedent, been ignorant of ethics rules, put aside the advice of experienced staffers and has been hostile to the expansion of workers\u2019 rights in favor of big business.
\n\u201cIf the past predicts the future, then even worse things are coming for workers and their unions,\u201d Liebman wrote.
\nRead the full column at The Morning Consult.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"