Trump nominates two lawyers to seal Republican control of US labor board

Source: Reuters

Trump nominates two lawyers to seal Republican control of US labor board

Daniel Wiessner
Thu, July 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM EDT
3 min read

(Reuters) -President Donald Trump has moved to install a Republican majority at the federal board that hears private-sector labor disputes and oversees union elections, which has been paralyzed by his unprecedented firing of a Democratic member.

The White House sent the nominations of Scott Mayer, chief labor counsel at Boeing Co, and James Murphy, a career lawyer at the National Labor Relations Board, to the U.S. Senate on Wednesday.

The five-member board has lacked a quorum of three members and has been unable to rule in hundreds of pending cases since Trump in January fired NLRB Member Gwynne Wilcox, an appointee of Democratic President Joe Biden.

It was the first time since the board was created in 1935 that a member had been removed.

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