Trump Takes Steps to Undo Obama Legacy on Labor
President Trump has nominated attorney Marvin Kaplan to serve on the NLRB, a move widely hailed by business groups. Obama-era labor decisions were controversial amongst businesses groups, many of whom now look forward to the undoing of partisan regulations and a shift to neutrality. However, unionized and nonunionized workers alike who benefitted from previous NLRB decisions worry that overturning those decisions would undermine their labor rights. Kaplan currently serves on the federal health and safety commission, and has previously served as Republican counsel for the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
See "Trump Takes Steps to Undo Obama Legacy on Labor", Noam Scheiber, New York Times, June 21, 2017