Under the Trump administration, the Department of Labor and the National Labor Relations Board have been working to protect workers and job creators. While this might sound a bit obvious, this program is in stark contrast to the previous eight years, during which the Obama administration pursued one of the most aggressive, one-sided slate of changes to labor policy in modern times.
That is not an exaggerated claim; instead, it is grounded in surprising data. According to a study by the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, a group of organizations representing businesses, the National Labor Relations Board under President Barack Obama “overturned a total 4,105 collective years of precedent in 91 cases and rejected an additional 454 collective years of case law by adopting comprehensive new [union certification] election rules.” Add that all up, and “the Obama Board upended 4,559 total years of established law.”
