Sasha Abramsky at The Nation reports that if there’s a silver lining, it’s that Blue States and municipalities are doubling down on protecting Workers. “My colleagues at the (National) Labor (Relations) Board are among the finest professionals I’ve ever worked with. We have attorneys from all backgrounds - Ivy League to regional commuter law school - who are at the agency because they are dedicated to the mission of upholding the NLRA and protecting labor peace and Private Sector Workers’ rights to freely choose whether or not to be in a Union,” said a Program Support Assistant at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), who wanted to remain anonymous for fear of retribution. “I intended to spend the rest of my career at the NLRB. I showed up to work positively obnoxiously giddy because I got to spend my days helping enforce the Act. The work meant everything to me and I was on the path to my goal. And then DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency), (Elon) Musk and Trump brought the cruelty, corruption, malice.” The Program Support Assistant told me that the Union representing NLRB Workers had managed to push back against the Board’s dismantling, but it was largely a victory that came at too great a cost. The three-person NLRB currently lacks a quorum to take action, having only two Members after Trump fired the third, Gwynne Wilcox, shortly after taking office. As a result, even though most of its Staff are still employed, having escaped the mass firings and layoffs that have corroded many other branches of the Federal Government. In practice the NLRB has been largely neutered and investigations against malfeasant employers such as Tesla - which has been accused of creating a toxic workplace environment by numerous Employees - are now on hold.

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