🚨🚨🚨 As the Senate leaves town in recess, the Senate’s Appropriations Committee approved a $5 million cut to the National Labor Relations Board’s budget. This comes less than a month after Senators, on a bipartisan basis, expressed their alarm over the ever-growing backlog of cases at the NLRB.

Members of our Manhattan, Newark, and Brooklyn locals are distributing flyers today at NYU’s Conference on Labor & Employment Law, where Acting General Counsel Cowen is speaking on “The Future of the NLRA.” The future of labor law is our Agency and our members. Save the NLRB.

Members of our Manhattan, Newark, and Brooklyn locals are distributing flyers today at NYU’s Conference on Labor & Employment Law, where Acting General Counsel Cowen is speaking on “The Future of the NLRA.” The future of labor law is our Agency and our members. Save the NLRB.

🚨🚨🚨 OMB THREATENS LAYOFFS AT THE NLRB According to Bloomberg, OMB has directed the NLRB to “think creatively” about how to reduce staff, despite President Trump’s appointed leaders of the agency agreeing that ANY job losses would devastate our ability to enforce federal law.

🚨🚨🚨 OMB THREATENS LAYOFFS AT THE NLRB According to Bloomberg, OMB has directed the NLRB to “think creatively” about how to reduce staff, despite President Trump’s appointed leaders of the agency agreeing that ANY job losses would devastate our ability to enforce federal law.

Good on these lawmakers for highlighting the disastrous consequences that cuts to the NLRB’s staffing would have on our country’s workers. With our agency already stretched so thin, DOGE must understand that we have nothing left to cut. @bobbyscott.house.gov @gregcasar.bsky.social

Good on these lawmakers for highlighting the disastrous consequences that cuts to the NLRB’s staffing would have on our country’s workers. With our agency already stretched so thin, DOGE must understand that we have nothing left to cut. @bobbyscott.house.gov @gregcasar.bsky.social

As reported last week, we can confirm that DOGE has entered the NLRB’s operations and detailed multiple employees to the Agency. We do not know yet what their intentions are. What we DO know is that the NLRB cannot afford to lose any more staff for the sake of “efficiency.”

It should go without saying, but this is comically inconsistent with the White House’s illegal return-to-work order that is being instituted on March 31, in violation of our Union’s contract with the Agency. Where exactly is DOGE proposing that Milwaukee agents work from?!

As reported last week, we can confirm that DOGE has entered the NLRB’s operations and detailed multiple employees to the Agency. We do not know yet what their intentions are. What we DO know is that the NLRB cannot afford to lose any more staff for the sake of “efficiency.”

🚨🚨🚨 Yesterday, the NLRBU learned that DOGE has unilaterally cancelled the Milwaukee office’s lease a year early, without notice. The lease will now expire in August 2025. DOGE has not provided the NLRB with any alternative for Milwaukee agents to perform their work.

🚨🚨🚨 Yesterday, the NLRBU learned that DOGE has unilaterally cancelled the Milwaukee office’s lease a year early, without notice. The lease will now expire in August 2025. DOGE has not provided the NLRB with any alternative for Milwaukee agents to perform their work.

🚨🚨🚨 In another example of DOGE’s destructive and erratic form of “governing,” the NLRB told its employees today that agency credit cards are considered frozen for at least the next 30 days. This throws any NLRB election or trial that requires overnight travel into question.

🚨🚨🚨 In another example of DOGE’s destructive and erratic form of “governing,” the NLRB told its employees today that agency credit cards are considered frozen for at least the next 30 days. This throws any NLRB election or trial that requires overnight travel into question.

🚨🚨🚨 Today, two major threats to the NLRB were issued. First, the Agency’s leadership instructed all employees that they are unlawfully forcing employees to return to the office full-time by March 31. Second, OPM told all agencies to begin Reduction-in-Force (RIF) plans.

🚨🚨🚨 Today, two major threats to the NLRB were issued. First, the Agency’s leadership instructed all employees that they are unlawfully forcing employees to return to the office full-time by March 31. Second, OPM told all agencies to begin Reduction-in-Force (RIF) plans.

A line item on DOGE's "Wall of Receipts" set off panic inside a federal agency this week. Either the NLRB is losing its regional office in Buffalo, or DOGE is claiming savings it isn't responsible for. Personally, I'd put my money on the latter. www.huffpost.com/entry/nlrb-o...

UPDATE: As of now, the NLRB is NOT being evicted from its Buffalo office. Region 3 was already moving to a smaller office this fall, and DOGE apparently claimed credit for this impending move by falsely labeling it as “savings.” @jamieson has the story: www.huffpost.com/entry/nlrb-o...

🚨🚨🚨 Yesterday, the NLRB’s Buffalo office (Region 3) received word from its landlord that GSA—acting on behalf of DOGE—had unilaterally cancelled the Region’s five-year lease, without any prior notice to the Agency. The Region has been given 90 days to vacate the building.

🚨🚨🚨 Yesterday, the NLRB’s Buffalo office (Region 3) received word from its landlord that GSA—acting on behalf of DOGE—had unilaterally cancelled the Region’s five-year lease, without any prior notice to the Agency. The Region has been given 90 days to vacate the building.

Today, February 19, 2025, is the Save Our Services day of action for federal employees and their unions. We are coming together to say ‘NO’ to Elon Musk's push to gut federal services and impose unlawful mass layoffs of hard-working civil servants across the federal government.

Today, February 19, 2025, is the Save Our Services day of action for federal employees and their unions. We are coming together to say ‘NO’ to Elon Musk's push to gut federal services and impose unlawful mass layoffs of hard-working civil servants across the federal government.

NEW: in another late-night “fork” email to federal employees, OPM has apparently made what is their “last, best, and final” offer to convince our members to resign their employment. Folks, we didn’t think this was possible, but OPM found a way to make the offer *worse.* 🧵

Late last night, with about 15 minutes notice to the Union, the NLRB’s HR sent an email adopting the terms of the forked-up resignation scam. HR also provided us a contract that appears to be drafted by AI or LegalZoom. As labor lawyers, we’re happy to go over this in detail. 🧵

Late last night, with about 15 minutes notice to the Union, the NLRB’s HR sent an email adopting the terms of the forked-up resignation scam. HR also provided us a contract that appears to be drafted by AI or LegalZoom. As labor lawyers, we’re happy to go over this in detail. 🧵

Yes, we received the second “fork” email from OPM. Our response remains the same:

Yes, we received the second “fork” email from OPM. Our response remains the same:

We will continue to do what we can to enforce federal labor law for the millions of private-sector workers who fall under the National Labor Relations Act’s protections, even with our ongoing understaffing and underfunding crises. In the meantime, we have a message for OPM:

UPDATE: In addition to Board Member Wilcox’s illegal firing, NLRB employees yesterday received a government-wide email from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) entitled “Fork in the Road.” This email purported to offer employees a “deferred resignation” of their job. 🚨

UPDATE: In addition to Board Member Wilcox’s illegal firing, NLRB employees yesterday received a government-wide email from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) entitled “Fork in the Road.” This email purported to offer employees a “deferred resignation” of their job. 🚨

This morning, we learned that President Trump fired Board Member Gwynne Wilcox, whose Senate-confirmed term runs until 2028. This move must be called out for what it is—a frontal assault on the NLRB, its employees, workers, and the very idea of an independent civil service. 🚨

This morning, we learned that President Trump fired Board Member Gwynne Wilcox, whose Senate-confirmed term runs until 2028. This move must be called out for what it is—a frontal assault on the NLRB, its employees, workers, and the very idea of an independent civil service. 🚨

For more than a decade, there has been a systematic effort to destroy the NLRB by starving it of staff and resources. Sensing blood in the water, those who wish to do wrong with impunity are now sounding the death knell and petitioning the courts to declare the Agency unconstitutional. 5-alarm fire.

For more than a decade, there has been a systematic effort to destroy the NLRB by starving it of staff and resources. Sensing blood in the water, those who wish to do wrong with impunity are now sounding the death knell and petitioning the courts to declare the Agency unconstitutional. 5-alarm fire.

NLRBU Executive VP, Michael Bilik, was quoted yesterday in the Guardian: “We’re in a very precarious position right now. Our backlog is skyrocketing, and we urgently need funding and personnel – not punitive restrictions on our basic ability to operate.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

NLRBU Executive VP, Michael Bilik, was quoted yesterday in the Guardian: “We’re in a very precarious position right now. Our backlog is skyrocketing, and we urgently need funding and personnel – not punitive restrictions on our basic ability to operate.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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We are deeply disappointed in the President’s proposal to increase the NLRB’s FY2025 budget by just $20 million. While we need all the funding we can get, this proposal does not come close to providing us with the resources we need to enforce federal labor law. Here’s why: 🧵

Tonight @RepScottPerry introduced an amendment to cut the NLRB’s budget by 67%. He said our agency’s employees have too many resources and too much free time. This is a bizarre statement. With exploding caseloads, we have never been busier. The NLRB needs more funding, not less.

We were honored to host @Andy_Levin this weekend as the keynote speaker of the NLRBU’s 2023 Convention in Seattle. We stand in solidarity with Andy, who understands the vital work and mission of our agency’s field staff in protecting the collective rights of workers nationwide.

Unless Congress overcomes its current budget impasse, government agencies like the NLRB will shut down after the September 30 funding deadline. Our members are not deemed “essential” workers, so the NLRB’s field staff will be furloughed indefinitely without pay.

The House of Representatives released its budget proposal yesterday for the 2024 fiscal year. We are distressed to learn that the House would slash the NLRB’s budget by a full 33% — an existential blow to the agency’s ability to enforce federal labor law in the workplace.

A great week for the NLRB gets even better. Last night, the agency and our Union reached an agreement to expand telework for field staff to six days per pay period, avoiding a reversal to pre-pandemic standards. We are ecstatic that the agency finally listened to its employees.

Funding the NLRB isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s also popular with the American public.

🚨🚨🚨 After nine long years, our national nightmare is over: a $25 million budget increase for the National Labor Relations Board has been included in the omnibus bill. If passed by both chambers, the funding Armageddon we warned of has been avoided—for at least this year.

“The National Labor Relations Board is striving to protect workers' right to form a union and collectively bargain, but the agency remains underfunded and understaffed.”

🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 RALLY TO SUPPORT NLRB STAFF When: Thursday 12/8 2PM Where: NLRB HQ - 1015 Half Street SE in D.C. The NLRB is in crisis brought on by a decade of underfunding. Case intake is exploding. Furloughs are imminent. We need immediate action. WE NEED FAIR FUNDING NOW.

🚨🚨🚨 “Accounting for both representation and ULP cases, the NLRB saw a 23 percent increase in cases from 2021, the largest single-year increase since FY1976 and the largest percentage increase since FY1959.” Congress MUST increase our budget ASAP.

For months, we have spread awareness of our fight for a fair budget from Congress to address the staffing crisis facing the NLRB’s field offices. But our General Counsel, Jennifer Abruzzo (@NLRBGC), has also taken stances at the bargaining table that are deepening this crisis.

With fixed costs rising by ≥4.6%, the NLRB is facing budgetary Armageddon. The agency is already in a hiring freeze, and for the first time in a decade we are hearing rumblings of employee furloughs. We are DESPERATELY asking Congress to increase our budget in the coming weeks.