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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Business
Michael Sainato

How Trump and corporations have hobbled US labor watchdog

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The National Labor Relations Board's top prosecutor, Jennifer Abruzzo, poses for a portrait at headquarters in Washington on 13 June 2022. Photograph: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/AP

Jennifer Abruzzo, general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) under the Biden administration, was one of the first officials to be fired by Donald Trump once he took office in January. She wasn’t the last.

Since then, Trump has fired a slew of government officials, including the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) chair, Gwynne Wilcox, the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, Erika McEntarfer, and most recently, he has attempted to fire the Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook.

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