(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Crystal Carey, a top Attorney at the Anti-Union Law Firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and now President Donald Trump’s nominee as General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), is running into flack from some U.S. Senators.

Worker Rights Advocates note that her conformation and placement in the position of General Counsel will severely weaken the ability of Workers everywhere in the country to Unionize.

Carey has been with the firm for at least seven years, after eight years as an NLRB Staff Attorney.

She spent much of a recent Senate Labor Committee confirmation session saying she would “carefully review” controversial issues - including the NLRB’s budget and staffing.

Carey’s nomination is important to Workers, even though the NLRB can’t make decisions right now because it lacks a quorum.

That’s thanks to President Trump, who unilaterally and illegally fired former NLRB Chair Gwynne Wilcox, the NLRB’s first-ever African-American Woman Member.

The Republican majority U.S. Supreme Court backed Trump, thus firing her and neutering the NLRB’s independence as well.

That prompted U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (Independent-Vermont), leading the committee minority, to declare that without Wilcox - and with only two Members - “the Board has been effectively shut down.”

No NLRB “makes it that much harder for Workers form a Union and improve their standards of living,” said Sanders, the Senate’s most-outspoken supporter of Unions and its longest-tenured one, too. “Because the NLRB is dysfunctional, company CEOs have free rein to intimidate and coerce Pro-Union Workers without recourse (by Workers or punishment by the NLRB).”

Sanders politely omitted the NLRB’s punishments are extremely weak.

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