President Joe Biden’s busy first day on the job Wednesday included firing Peter Robb, general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board. Robb is a former management lawyer who helped Ronald Reagan bust the air traffic controllers union, launching a tidal wave of union busting that’s decimated the American labor movement. Labor celebrated Robb’s dismissal and hailed it as a welcome departure from the Trump administration’s anti-worker policies. “It’s proof this administration is putting workers ahead of giant corporations and their cronies,” said CWA organizer Emma Kinema. AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka added that Robb had “mounted an unrelenting attack for more than three years on workers’ right to organize and engage in collective bargaining.” Read more here and hear labor historian Joe McCartin discuss this on yesterday’s Your Rights At Work show here. Comments are closed.
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