General Counsel for the NLRB Peter Robb might launch a significant overhaul of the Labor Board’s operations. Robb told regional directors on January 11 that he was considering consolidating the 26 regional offices into districts that would be supervised by officials reporting directly to the general counsel, Robb himself. Some are worried that this maneuver is intended to take away power from the regional offices, who could require approval from official regional directors to issue complaints and dismissals of unfair labor practice cases.
See "Labor Board Shakeup Could Centralize Control Over Cases", Lawrence E. Dubé, Bloomberg BNA, January 17, 2018