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Minutes following his swearing in, President Joe Biden demanded that Peter Robb resign his post as General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Robb refused to resign and, in an unprecedented move, was summarily fired by the White House.
Robb has been a lightning rod for criticism from organized labor. He was confirmed by the Senate for a term slated to end in November 2021. Published reports say Biden had been under pressure to immediately remove Robb since Election Day.
It is not clear that the President has the unilateral authority to discharge the NLRB General Counsel. In 1950, President Harry Truman asked for the resignation of then-General Counsel Robert Denham, who complied with the request. An involuntary termination has never occurred.