Businesses and conservatives fear that Trump’s labor deal with Schumer is a loser

Published September 10, 2018 4:00am ET



Conservative and pro-business groups are urging the White House to abandon a handshake agreement President Trump struck with Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to fill an open slot on the National Labor Relations Board, the main federal labor law enforcement agency. It is a case, they argue, where Schumer may have proven he is better at the art of the deal than Trump.

Schumer wants Trump to renominate longtime NLRB member Mark Gaston Pearce, who has served on the board since 2010. Keeping Pearce wouldn’t upset the board’s current 3-2 GOP majority created by Trump’s previous NLRB appointees, so keeping Pearce may seem like a small price to play if it can get Schumer to pay ball on the other White House pick.

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