#NLRB GC #JenniferAbruzzo is systematically gutting the "#UnionAvoidance" playbook. She's banned the use of temp-work app blacklists that force workers to cross #PicketLines:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/30/computer-says-scab/#instawork

She's changed the penalty for bosses who violate labor law during union drives. It used to be the boss would pay a fine, which was an easy price to pay in exchange for killing your workers' union. *Now*, the penalty is *automatic recognition of the union*:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/06/goons-ginks-and-company-finks/#if-blood-be-the-price-of-your-cursed-wealth

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I've written a lot about Biden's excellent appointees, from his #NationalLaborRelationsBoard general counsel #JenniferAbruzzo to #ConsumerFinanceProtectionBureau chair #RohitChopra to #FTC Chair #LinaKhan to #DoJ #antitrust boss #JonathanKanter:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/14/prop-22-never-again/#norms-code-laws-markets

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Take #NationalLaborRelationsBoard general counsel #JenniferAbruzzo's ruling in #Cemex: when a company takes an illegal action to affect the outcome of a #union election, the consequence is now *automatic recognition of the union*:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/06/goons-ginks-and-company-finks/#if-blood-be-the-price-of-your-cursed-wealth

That's a huge deal. Before, a boss could fire union organizers and intimidate workers, scuttle the union election, and then, months or years later, pay a fine and some back-wages...and the union would be smashed.

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No matter how horny your boss is for replacing you with an #AI, a #union will cool his ardor

https://doctorow.medium.com/how-the-writers-guild-sunk-ais-ship-236575979d5c?sk=28d4f52322040150651fea37a303b342

#HotLaborSummer #EternalLaborSeptember #JenniferAbruzzo #Cemex #ThrivePetCare

Actually, the President of the United States is powerful

https://doctorow.medium.com/joe-biden-is-headed-to-a-uaw-picket-line-in-detroit-f80bd0b372ab?sk=f3abdfd3f26d2f615ad9d2f1839bcc07

#PackTheCourts #PersonnelArePolicy #NLRB #JenniferAbruzzo

If this sounds like an #UnfairLaborPractice to you, you're not alone. #NLRB general counsel #JenniferAbruzzo agrees with you. She's another one of those Biden appointees with a principled commitment to making life better for American workers, and the technical chops to turn that principle into muscular action.

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They embody the old joke about the photocopier technician who charges "$1 to kick the photocopier and $79 to know where to kick it." The best Biden appointees have their boots firmly laced, and they're *kicking* that mother:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/16/the-second-best-time-is-now/#the-point-of-a-system-is-what-it-does

One such expert kicker is NLRB General Counsel #JenniferAbruzzo.

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But the #Biden admin, pushed by the party's left wing, made a string of historic, excellent appointments, including #NLRB General Counsel #JenniferAbruzzo, who has set her sights on punishing gig work companies for flouting labor law:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/10/see-you-in-the-funny-papers/#bidens-legacy

UNITE HERE 11 has brought a case to the NLRB, charging the Instawork, the UC system, Marriott, and Aimbridge with violating labor law by blackmailing gig workers into crossing the picket line.

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