Trump fires labor board officials, setting up legal fight

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Her approach toward protecting workers' rights and holding employers accountable has raised the ire of many in the corporate world.
49% : Last week, Trump named Marvin Kaplan, the sole Republican board member on the NLRB, as chair.
48% : She was a Biden appointee who had used the agency to expand workers' rights.
41% : It's unclear when – or even if – Trump will fill the three vacant seats.
40% : With this move, Trump has effectively shut down the NLRB's operations, leaving the workers it defends on their own, AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler said in a statement.
29% : But Trump went further, also firing Democratic board member Gwynne Wilcox in an unprecedented move that will be met with a legal fight.
19% : It wasn't a surprise when President Trump fired National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo late Monday.

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