Biden Labor Purge Sparks Legal Challenge Getty Images Graham Piro • February 22, 2021 4:59 am
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An Oregon worker is challenging President Joe Biden s day one purge of Trump appointees from a federal agency, arguing that the administration is shielding a major union accused of violating labor law.
Jeremy Brown accused the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians Local 51 of illegally siphoning donations from his paycheck, prompting an investigation from the National Labor Relations Board, the federal government s top labor arbiter. The agency ruled in favor of Brown in December 2019. Its top prosecutor, then-general counsel Peter Robb, opened another investigation after Brown alleged that a union attorney threatened him in the course of the investigation. After Robb s ouster, Biden-appointed acting general counsel Peter Ohr withdrew his support of the complaint.
WASHINGTON, DC - Oregon-based ABC cameraman Jeremy Brown is challenging an attempt by National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) so-called “Acting General Counsel” Peter Ohr to withdraw a brief that Ohr’s predecessor, Peter Robb, filed defending Brown from threats he received from a union lawyer.
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From Joe Biden’s signing of an Executive Order throttling the Keystone XL Pipeline and eliminating 11,000 direct jobs, to Biden’s questionable firing of National Labor Relations Board (NRLB) General Counsel Peter Robb, it is clear that a war on work, and who controls it, will be part of what defines this new administration.
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation recently filed a Freedom of Information Act request for correspondence related to the firing of NRLB General Counsel Robb. Since the office was established in 1947, a General Counsel has never been fired, even with changes in administrations. Robb only had 10 months left on his tenure.
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