Biden to NLRB Trump appointees: "You're fired"

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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/01/peter-robb-alice-stock-nlrb-fired.html

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Twenty-three minutes after assuming the presidency, Joe Biden demanded the resignation of Peter Robb, the notoriously anti-union general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board appointed by Donald Trump. Robb refused to resign, so Biden fired him. Alice Stock, another anti-union Trump appointee, then assumed the role of acting general counsel—and Biden demanded her resignation the next day. Stock also refused to resign, so Biden fired her, too.

Both Robb and Stock, who relentlessly undermined unions’ ability to organize and bargain, are now complaining that Biden fired them without just cause. Stock went so far as to suggest that Robb’s firing was illegal. She is wrong. Robb and Stock were at-will employees of the executive. Like the countless American workers whom they prevented from unionizing, they had no guarantee against termination without just cause. Biden did not violate any laws. He simply gave the nation’s chief union busters a taste of their own medicine.

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Aww. Unionized workers everywhere are... showing remarkably little sympathy and fellow-feeling. :evil
People who were prevented from forming or joining unions, even less.:roll::ROFL:
 
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From the Republican perspective only conservatives can fire at will. From the Republican perspective progressives must follow the rules of their behavior as defined by Republicans (false), and since progressives like worker protections (true), they are not allowed to take advantage of draconian Republican laws, however legal.

From the Republican perspective it's not fair when progressives don't act like the imaginary progressives the Republicans like to sneer at in their own propaganda.
 
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Reminds me of the busted Capitol rioters. They were expecting to fight the police, they weren't expecting them to fight back!
 
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Kaiser-Kun said:
Reminds me of the busted Capitol rioters. They were expecting to fight the police, they weren't expecting them to fight back!
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They seemingly expected the police to embrace and join them.
 

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Were they somehow under the impression that as long as they weren't black, the police wouldn't hit them?
 
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Alessandra Kelley said:
From the Republican perspective only conservatives can fire at will. From the Republican perspective progressives must follow the rules of their behavior as defined by Republicans (false), and since progressives like worker protections (true), they are not allowed to take advantage of draconian Republican laws, however legal.

From the Republican perspective it's not fair when progressives don't act like the imaginary progressives the Republicans like to sneer at in their own propaganda.
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Roxxsmom said:
This is another one of those circumstances when Republicans like to cry, "But what about HEALING?!!!"
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This is another one of those circumstances when Republicans like to cry, "But what about HEALING?!!!"
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Eh, I've never seen that asked seriously. It's just a stick they've labelled "hypocrisy" that they like to poke liberals with.

If they really want unity & healing, the Senate can start by approving the articles of impeachment, and *rump voters can start by admitting "the steal" was a bullshit lie they've been repeating.
 
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