In an Executive Session yesterday, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions approved the nomination of Richard F. Griffin, Jr. as General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board. The Senate will now be able to vote on Griffin’s nomination, though no such vote is officially scheduled.
Prior to his recess appointment to the Board, Griffin was the general counsel for the International Union of Operating. He has served on the board of directors for the AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee for nearly two decades. Additionally, Griffin was one of President Obama’s three controversial recess appointees to the Board in January of 2012. Earlier this summer, Griffin’s nomination to the NLRB was withdrawn.
The Committee also approved the nomination of Scott Dahl as Inspector General of the US Department of Labor. Mr. Dahl currently serves as the Smithsonian Institution’s inspector general, as well as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center.
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September 15
Unemployment claims rise; a federal court hands victory to government employees union; and employers fire workers over social media posts.
September 14
Workers at Boeing reject the company’s third contract proposal; NLRB Acting General Counsel William Cohen plans to sue New York over the state’s trigger bill; Air Canada flight attendants reject a tentative contract.
September 12
Zohran Mamdani calls on FIFA to end dynamic pricing for the World Cup; the San Francisco Office of Labor Standards Enforcement opens a probe into Scale AI’s labor practices; and union members organize immigration defense trainings.
September 11
California rideshare deal advances; Boeing reaches tentative agreement with union; FTC scrutinizes healthcare noncompetes.
September 10
A federal judge denies a motion by the Trump Administration to dismiss a lawsuit led by the American Federation of Government Employees against President Trump for his mass layoffs of federal workers; the Supreme Court grants a stay on a federal district court order that originally barred ICE agents from questioning and detaining individuals based on their presence at a particular location, the type of work they do, their race or ethnicity, and their accent while speaking English or Spanish; and a hospital seeks to limit OSHA's ability to cite employers for failing to halt workplace violence without a specific regulation in place.
September 9
Ninth Circuit revives Trader Joe’s lawsuit against employee union; new bill aims to make striking workers eligible for benefits; university lecturer who praised Hitler gets another chance at First Amendment claims.