President Trump's terminating NLRB General Counsel Abruzzo was expected; terminating NLRB Member Wilcox was not. WPI's Alex MacDonald explains the legal theories that may be behind the move.

On Monday, President Trump terminated the employment of National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo, which was widely expected.

However, what was not expected was that Trump also fired NLRB Member Gwynne Wilcox.

In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, returning guest Alex MacDonald, Co-Chair of Littler’s Workplace Policy Institute, joins host Peter List to discuss the legal theory that may be behind the move.

Follow Alex MacDonald on LinkedIn here.

Follow Alex MacDonald’s writings at the Federalist Society here.

Prior Labor Relations Radio episodes with Alex MacDonald:

• Labor Relations Radio, E149: An Accidental Outcome? Alex MacDonald returns to discuss how the NLRA's success has resulted in fewer unions & what might happen under a new administration in DC.
• Labor Relations Radio E144—Alex MacDonald Explains How Unions' Right to"Exclusive Representation" May Be Unconstitutional
• Labor Relations Radio E138 — Attorney Alex MacDonald On The Constitutionality Of 'Exclusive Representation'

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National Retail Federation's Ed Egee provides an update on some of the latest happenings in Washington, DC since Pres. Trump re-entered the Oval Office.

Mr. Edwin Egee, vice president, government relations and workforce development at the National Retail Federation. He is responsible for NRF’s policy agenda on labor, employment, immigration and health care. He manages NRF’s Employment Law and Benefits Committee.

Though early in the new Trump Administration, Mr. Egee joins host Peter List to discuss the latest happenings in Washington—from President Trump’s recent moves at the National Labor Relations Board, where specific cases stand, as well as immigration, and Senator Josh Hawley’s pro-union (anti-worker) “framework” for labor law changes.

Related:

• Labor Relations Radio, Ep. 30—Guest: The National Retail Federation's Ed Egee on Underground Efforts To Install Electronic Voting and Card Check

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California Policy Center's Edward Ring and Retired Battalion Chief Frank Ricci discuss some of the issues that have contributed to the devastation of the California wildfires.

Recorded separately for YGTBFKMNews.com’s Daily News, Edward Ring, the director of water and energy policy for the California Policy Center, and Frank Ricci, a retired firefighter, battalion chief, and union president, joined host Peter List to discuss the issues involved with the fires wreaking havoc and destruction across southern California.

Related:

• Ricci: Like Administrative Arson, California’s Bad Ideas Spread Like Wildfires

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Connecting the dots from Carter's deregulation crusade nearly 45 years ago to the election of Donald Trump.

In a wide-ranging interview with Tucker Carlson, Teamsters’ President Sean O’Brien explained how the Democrats broke the Teamsters’ pension funds and expected to be thanked for fixing them 40 years later.

In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, host Peter List revisits the Carter legacy, and Democrats’ crusade to deregulate certain industries did more to decimate unions than Ronald Reagan ever did.

Related:

• Worth a Watch: The Teamsters' Sean O'Brien Interview With Tucker Carlson
• The Decline of Unions, Part One: President Jimmy Carter, Union-Buster

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A discussion between two non-attorneys about the latest happenings at the National Labor Relations Board

There have been a lot of developments at the National Labor Relations Board since the November 5th election, and with President Trump returning to the White House in November, many expect the labor law pendulum to swing back to the right after January.

In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, Labor Relations Institute’s Michael VanDervort joins host Peter List to get caught up on some of the changes over the last several weeks and how the NLRB may change in the coming months and years under Trump 2.0.

Related:

• Michael VanDervort’s DriveThru HR podcast
• Labor Relations Institute’s Left of Boom Show

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A wide-ranging discussion on income inequality, the growth of artificial intelligence and its impact on society.

Erik Sherman is a freelance writer who reports on business, economics, finance, investing, markets, tech, law, commercial real estate, and income and wealth inequality. His credits include Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times Magazine, NBC News, CBS Moneywatch, Technology Review, The Fiscal Times, and Inc. He is also the author or co-author of 10 nonfiction books.

In this episode, Erik joins host Peter List in the continuation of a conversation that began on X (formerly Twitter) about AI and economics.

To follow Erik Sherman:

• Erik Sherman at Forbes
• Erik Sherman at Substack
• Erik Sherman on X (formerly Twitter)

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Picking a PRO-Act supporting, amnesty and Big Government-loving, one-term Congresswoman as the next labor secretary has many people scratching their heads.

On Friday evening, much to the surprise of the business community and millions of independent contractors, President-elect Donald Trump nominated a one-term Congresswoman, Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore), to become Trump’s Secretary of Labor.

Despite her seeming lack of qualifications, Chavez-DeRemer’s pick is surprising to many people due to her…

• Backing of the PRO Act
• Support for nationalizing public-sector labor law
• Reported backing of amnesty for undocumented migrants

As the nomination was fully supported by the Teamsters’ union president Sean O’Brien, the Wall Street Journal editorial board even penned a piece entitled: Trump’s Labor Choice: Unions Over Workers.

In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, Jennifer Van Laar, the managing editor of RedState.com joins host Peter List to discuss Trump’s puzzling pick.

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Teamsters' President Sean O'Brien—and the AFT's Randi Weingarten—want a pro-union former Congresswoman to head Donald Trump's Department of Labor.

Teamsters President Sean O’Brien is recommending Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, an Oregon Republican, to lead the Department of Labor under the incoming Trump administration.

She is an odd choice for Trump to consider, given her backing of the economy-destroying PRO Act, and she has already garnered much criticism from many people and groups, including independent contractor advocates.

In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, Michael Saltsman, a partner with Berman & Co. joins host Peter List to discuss what is driving the push behind Chavez-DeRemer, as well as why she would be a bad choice for the incoming Trump administration.

Related:

• Teamsters president pushing Chavez-DeRemer for Labor secretary
• Lori Chavez-DeRemer touted for US Labor Secretary
• Employers' group tees off on Chavez-DeRemer amid Labor secretary chatter
• Don’t Let the Teamsters Pick the Labor Secretary
• Independent Contractors Sound the Alarm: PRO-Act Sponsor Lori-Chavez-DeRemer Is Not Fit to Be Labor Secy
• Make America Work Again

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