Trump Stymies Labor Board by Firing Democrat Gwynne Wilcox (2)

President Donald Trump fired National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox in an unprecedented personnel move that prevents the board from deciding cases and appears to violate federal law.

Trump’s partisan purge of Democratic NLRB officials in the late hours of Monday targeted Wilcox, the first Black woman to serve on the board. General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo was terminated as well.

Chair Marvin Kaplan, the NLRB’s sole Republican, and Democratic member David Prouty remain on the board.

The NLRB can’t issue decisions unless it has a quorum of at least three members, according to a US Supreme Court decision ...