(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Crystal Carey, the Union-Buster whom President Donald Trump named as General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), plans a mass trashing of Biden-era Pro-Worker Rules, starting with overturning the curbs on Captive Audience Meetings, plus restoring limits on Union insignias Workers can wear on their caps and uniforms.

And Carey’s plans carry weight.

As the NLRB’s General Counsel, she is its de facto Chief of Staff and, more importantly, its top Enforcement Officer.

Before taking the General Counsel post, Carey was a Senior Partner at Morgan, Lewis and Bockius - one of the Nation’s biggest Union-Busters.

Which means once Carey gets done, Worker protections instituted by the Biden-era NLRB and its General Counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo, will disappear.

One already has.

That’s the one where Abruzzo convinced the Biden-era NLRB to enlarge the definition of finally making whole a Worker whom the boss illegally fired for Union advocacy, organizing - or both.

For decades, until Abruzzo took over, the NLRB’s penalties for such illegal actions were small: Ordering the firm to post a “we broke the law and promise not to do it again” notice and to award the Worker net back pay. 

That was the difference between what the fired Worker would have earned between the time he or she was canned and the time the NLRB ruled in her favor, minus whatever pay from other jobs he or she could line up to keep body, soul, and family alive. 

Except in unusual cases, where the NLRB sought damages, too, the amounts were small.

And they didn’t deter companies from breaking Labor Laws.

With the Biden NLRB’s okay, Abruzzo changed that.

Net back pay became that sum plus reimbursing the Worker for any extra expenses he or she shouldered while waiting for the NLRB’s ruling, from loans to take care of missed mortgage payments or rent to paying for health insurance to running up credit card debt for all of that, and more.

The idea was to really make companies pay for harming their Workers.

One of Carey’s first acts on becoming General Counsel was to change that back.

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