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James48

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6. For the record, that can't happen. There is no Federal Labor Board.

Reply to Sanity Claws (Reply #3)

Thu Feb 20, 2025, 06:09 PM

Feb 2025

Because Trump fired the Federal Labor Relations Board members that would hear such a case.
See.

https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/02/trump-apparently-fires-flra-chairwoman/402933/

Without a quorum, the FLRB is unable to make decisions. They are still digging out from the backlog the last time Trump fired them all in 2017. Without a functional board, there will be no one to reprimand Trump.

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