Biden's White House has tried to boost unions. The election could change that.

The NLRB has taken a more forceful pro-labor stance under President Joe Biden. Potential new leadership and a series of court decisions threaten those efforts.

Joe Biden’s presidency has seen a flurry of labor actions from Detroit to Hollywood. What comes next could hinge on who gets to oversee labor relations after the election.

The National Labor Relations Board — which polices unfair labor practices and mediates worker-management disputes — has become an aggressive union booster under Biden. While the agency’s policies typically shift depending on who’s in the White House, the change has been pronounced, labor experts and former NLRB staffers say.

“You’d have to go back to the 1930s and early 1940s to see something of this nature,” said Michael LeRoy, a professor at the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

But the NLRB’s recent efforts haven’t always succeeded, and emerging court battles will affect whether its more muscular approach — whether on behalf of workers or employers — can continue, as former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris vie for union votes.

“The confluence of a strongly pro-labor NLRB and a strongly anti-labor Supreme Court are sort of mixing together to create this atmosphere of instability,” LeRoy said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/labor-unions-nlrb-biden-harris-trump-rcna164363

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