Former NLRB chairman slams Trump pick for board

Published July 17, 2017 4:33pm ET



William Gould, chairman of the National Labor Relations Board during President Bill Clinton’s administration, slammed President Trump’s pick of former House Republican staffer Marvin Kaplan to fill an open seat on the labor law enforcement agency, calling him “unqualified and hostile to the law that he would interpret and administer.”

Kaplan, he said, would “undercut the integrity” of the board.

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