The National Labor Relations Board’s (“NLRB”) General Counsel, Crystal Carey, drew applause, as well as some criticism, earlier this year when she departed from her predecessors by declining to issue a “Mandatory Advice Memo”—a memorandum that would have outlined her litigation priorities and identifying caselaw she wished to overturn by instructing the NLRB’s regional offices to submit all such cases to the agency’s Division of Advice. Instead, in January 2026, she issued a memorandum declaring her top priority as tackling the NLRB’s historic case backlog.
Timed to coincide with the recent confirmation of James Macy as the Board’s third Republican appointee, it appears that the General Counsel is prepared to declare a victory, of sorts, over the federal watchdog’s backlog and to press forward with efforts to overturn Union-friendly precedent—much of which was issued during the latter half of the Biden Administration. Traditionally, the NLRB’s five-member quasi-judicial Board… Read the complete article here...
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