Posts tagged Crystal Carey
Commentary: Finally, it’s time for the Trump NLRB to go on offense
September 21, 2026 // The Cemex decision was legally problematic, and the precedent the Biden NLRB has set was challenged in federal courts. But now, Carey has targeted the Cemex decision for reversal, arguing the decision is “contrary to Supreme Court precedent and sound labor policy.” As labor policy expert Vinnie Vernuccio of the Institute for the American Worker explains: Her [Carey’s] brief notes that the Biden-era board ignored “the significant impact its decision had on worker free choice,” which she rightly calls a “backbone” of federal labor law. The General Counsel’s ultimate point could hardly be clearer or more pro-worker: “The right of employees to vote in a secret ballot election, free from coercion and from an informed position, once meant something — it should again.”
Biden’s NLRB stole workers’ secret ballot. It’s time to give it back
September 8, 2026 // It’s hard to overstate how harmful — and insulting — the Cemex decision has been to workers. Before the Biden-era NLRB handed down this decision, unionization elections typically followed a straightforward process. Unions kicked things off by convincing workers to sign cards in support of unionization. The union then presents the cards to the employer, demanding that management recognize the union via “card check” or hold a secret-ballot election.
Opinion: Biden made poor labor choices. I had a front-row seat.
September 5, 2026 // With three Republican votes, the NLRB is well positioned to address these — and many other — poor decisions that have exacerbated the board’s backlog. I know from experience that there will never be a quiet docket. But I also know that the number of open claims will shrink further if the board restores standards that are grounded in law and common sense. The NLRB already has the cases to overturn the board’s old rulings. It has the authority. Now it has the votes — and the duty to act.
Letter to NLRB General Counsel Crystal Carey: Refocusing Federal Labor Policy on Worker Choice and Due Process
March 11, 2026 // The Coalition to Protect American Workers (CPAW) and the Institute for the American Worker (I4AW) today sent a joint letter to NLRB General Counsel Crystal Carey urging swift action to reverse Biden-era labor policies that erode worker choice, restrict employer free speech, and weaponize procedural tools to block workers from voting on their own representation. The letter urges General Counsel Carey to prioritize three reforms: cementing secret-ballot elections as the foundation of representation decisions; restoring Employer Meetings on Unionization so workers hear both sides before they vote; and ending blocking charges that freeze elections while investigations proceed.
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.”