(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Virtually unnoticed in the celebrations over July 4th, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the New Deal-era law that created it, turned 90 years old the next day. Now the question is: Will the law, and the Board, be around to celebrate their 100th birthday?

And the short answer is “not if Donald Trump has any say in the matter.”

And he’ll have quite a say, by both what he does and doesn’t do.

The Republican President has a long record of Labor repression.

Trump’s bias isn’t quite as old as the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), but it’s close.

After all, the law is 90.

Trump is 79.

His first headline-making attack on Workers was in 1990, when Trump - then a swashbuckling New York-based developer, had Laborers members, many of them naturalized Polish Immigrants, build his Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City.

He then stiffed the 100 contractors who hired them and other Unionists.

He didn’t pay them a penny.

It took the Union Local years of fighting, at least one lawsuit, and the casino going broke before Workers made any headway.

Trump walked away before the workers got any money, ending up with 40 cents on the dollar after selling it to another mega-mogul, Carl Icahn.

After years of claimed losses, he forced a Strike by the Casino’s Workers over health care cuts and then closed it down in 2016.

Fast forward to this year when Trump executed what National AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler calls the biggest Union-Busting action in U.S. History, unilaterally demolishing 30 Union contracts covering a million Federal Workers.

Lower Courts said Trump broke the law and the Constitution, too.

The six-Justice GOP majority on the Supreme Court - three named by Trump - reversed that.

The eliminations stand.

That same majority also let stand Trump’s firing, on January 27th, of NLRB Member Gwynne Wilcox, even though her term doesn’t expire legally until August 2028.

In one stroke, Trump neutered the independence of the NLRB.

No Wilcox means no quorum, which means the NLRB can’t have the final word on Worker-boss disputes, Unfair Labor Practices or Labor Union elections and certifications.

The No Wilcox ruling also declares Trump - and any President, can remove an NLRB member for political reasons, which he did.

The NLRA - also called the Wagner Act, for U.S. Senator Robert F. Wagner Sr. (Democrat-New York), the lead Congressional advocate - bans political firings.

Firings can be for cause, period.

“If you don’t think (Trump) is eventually coming after the Private Sector, you’re not paying attention,” Pima County (Tucson) Federation of Labor President Cecilia Valdez told the Progressive Democrats of America on July 20th. “He wants to eliminate us altogether.”

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