As we advised last week, attorney John Ring was confirmed by the US Senate last Thursday for the final slot on the National Labor Relations Board. What wasn’t evident at the time was that President Trump would be immediately promoting Ring to the chairmanship of the agency. He announced that move last Thursday evening, replacing…
Read More »It has been in the works for a while now (Ring was first nominated back in January to fill the seat vacated by Phil Miscimarra), but the National Labor Relations Board is finally back to full strength with the confirmation of attorney John Ring. On a party line vote of 50-48, the Senate approved Ring…
Read More »NLRB nominee William Emanuel moved another step closer to Senate confirmation this week when the US Senate approved a closure motion on a party-line vote of 49-44 with several Senators already absent for the Rosh Hashanah holiday. Emanuel was nominated back in June for the fifth and final open NLRB slot. His formal confirmation vote…
Read More »On Wednesday, the US Senate gave final confirmation to Marvin Kaplan, one of President Trump’s nominees to fill an open seat on the National Labor Relations Board. Kaplan, an attorney who has been serving as the Counsel for Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission since 2015 (he was appointed to the post by President Obama),…
Read More »It was reported this week that the Trump administration is looking at filling the two empty seats on the National Labor Relations Board soon, thereby creating a republican majority on the 5-member independent agency for the first time since 2008. The likely shift that a full complement of Directors would bring about could not be…
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