Posts tagged Crystal Carey
Cornell Ph.D. Student’s Appeal to NLRB’s Top Prosecutor Urges Agency to End Union Control Over Graduate Students
February 23, 2026 // Russell Burgett, a Ph.D. candidate in chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell University, is asking newly-seated National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Crystal Carey to issue a complaint and ask the NLRB to free graduate students across the country from being forced to fund and associate with union bosses.
VIDEO: CPAW Launches New Ad Spotlighting a Pro-Worker Course Correction at the NLRB Under the Trump Administration
January 13, 2026 // “New Day” draws a clear contrast between the Biden administration’s politicized NLRB that empowered union leadership’s political agendas and President Trump's pro‑worker approach that puts employees back at the center of labor policy. The message is straightforward: it’s a new day for American workers, with an NLRB focused on fairness and freedom in the workplace.
US Senate confirms Trump nominees for labor board paralyzed after member’s firing
December 19, 2025 // Trump's appointees to the board are expected to undo a series of decisions issued by Wilcox and other appointees of Democratic former President Joe Biden that have been criticized by business groups and Republican lawmakers. Under a decades-old policy, the board typically does not overturn its existing precedent unless three members vote to do so. Trump has not yet named a nominee that would give the board a third Republican member, but Mayer and Murphy in the meantime could issue decisions narrowing the reach of Biden-era decisions. That includes a 2023 ruling that allows unions to represent workers in some instances even after losing an election, a ban on the common employer practice of holding mandatory meetings to discourage unionizing and an expansion of monetary remedies available to workers who are fired for supporting unions or other protected conduct.
U.S. Senate Vote Next Week Set to Restore NLRB Quorum
December 9, 2025 // For the first time in 11 months, the National Labor Relations Board will likely have a quorum by year end, enabling it to start issuing decisions. Board member nominee Scott Mayer, a chief corporate labor counsel, was a last-minute addition to the U.S. Senate nominee package that will be voted on next week. The nominee package already included Board nominee James Murphy and General Counsel nominee Crystal Carey. If the Senate confirms all three nominees, Carey’s term will last four years, with Mayer and Murphy’s terms expiring December 16, 2029, and December 16, 2027, respectively
Trump’s NLRB Nominees Get Grilled While Board Faces Uncertain Future
October 3, 2025 // If confirmed by the whole Senate, Mayer and Murphy will join the NLRB’s only member, Democratic appointee David A. Prouty, returning the usually five-person board to a three-person quorum with two GOP members and one Democratic one. Historically, the political affiliation of the board members breaks along a 3-2 split, with the majority coming from the president’s political party. With a quorum, the board should be able to return to its work of helping settle labor disputes as outlined under the National Labor Relations Act.
New Game Plan: White House and Congress Move to Clarify Student Athlete Unionization Rights
July 31, 2025 // The SCORE bill’s ban is broad. Its key provision says, in part: “no individual may be considered an employee of an institution, a conference, or an interstate intercollegiate athletic association based on the participation of such individual on a varsity sports team or in an intercollegiate athletic competition as a student athlete.” In addition, the bill blocks states from enforcing any law that “governs or regulates the compensation, payment, benefits, employment status, or eligibility of a student athlete (including a prospective student athlete) with respect to participation in intercollegiate athletics.” It specifically blocks any state law that “relates to the right of a student athlete to receive compensation or other payments or benefits directly or indirectly from any institution, associated entity or individual, conference, or interstate intercollegiate athletic association.”
The Roadmap To Modernizing Federal Labor Laws: Matt Kittle, F. Vincent Vernuccio
July 20, 2025 // That's one of the main things that we want to see at I4AW. Is workers having a choice in a voice, having. The ability to say who they want to be represented by, how they want their money spent, and how they want to work. And I know we talked about it briefly with the ERA, but the ability for an independent contractor to work for themselves, not be considered an employee, small business owner, to own a franchise, all those things are core to what the flexibility and the entrepreneurship of the modern worker, and those are the concepts that are embraced, you know, not just on the union end of the Employee Rights Act, but on the innovation and entrepreneurial spirit and pro worker end of the ERA.
Amazon labor organizers challenge union election loss, alleging employer coercion
May 14, 2025 // The union campaign at Garner’s RDU1 warehouse lost by a wide margin earlier this year. Organizers say they faced retaliation and a massive “union-busting” effort.
CDW Leads Letter Supporting Crystal Carey Nomination
April 16, 2025 // The Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW) and the 20 undersigned organizations urge your support for the nomination of Crystal Carey to serve as the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Carey is well-qualified to serve and will be an asset to the Board in this role. We urge your support for her nomination.
‘Trump and Musk are setting the example’: how companies are becoming emboldened to be more anti-union
April 10, 2025 // That tougher behavior under former president Ronald Reagan sped the decline of private sector unions. Today, just 6% of private sector workers are in unions, while 32% of public sector workers are. Anti-union ideologues are increasingly targeting public sector unions, which often support Democrats. “Because almost half of the labor movement is now in the public sector, the assault that we’re seeing now is really focused on the public sector,” McCartin said. “That really threatens to break the spine of the labor movement.”