Trump moves to fire members of EEOC, NLRB boards, breaking with precedent

President Donald Trump has moved to fire Democratic members of two independent federal commissions, an extraordinary break from decades of legal precedent that promises to hand Republicans control over boards that oversee swaths of U.S. workers, employers and labor unions.

Trump moved Monday night to dismiss two of three Democratic members of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission — Jocelyn Samuels and Charlotte Burrows, formerly the chair, the White House confirmed Tuesday. Trump also fired the chair of the National Labor Relations Board, Gwynne Wilcox, a Democrat, an NLRB spokesperson confirmed Tuesday.

In addition, Trump acted to dismiss the EEOC’s general counsel, who oversees the agency’s existing civil actions against employers on a range of issues including discrimination claims from LGBTQ+ employees and pregnant workers. And he terminated Jennifer Abruzzo, the NLRB’s general counsel. Both dismissals throw into question the status of numerous actions underway at both agencies, including against billionaire Elon Musk’s electric car company, Tesla.

“These were far-left appointees with radical records of upending long-standing labor law, and they have no place as senior appointees in the Trump administration, which was given a mandate by the American people to undo the radical policies they created,” a White House official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the administration.

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