Among the executive actions carried out on his first day in office, Donald Trump fired Jennifer Abruzzo from her post as General Counsel at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Two days prior to Abruzzo’s dismissal from her influential position, journalist Dan Kaufman wrote an article about her and the NLRB for the New York Review of Books.

Kaufman joins guest host Chali Pittman today to discuss Abruzzo’s legacy, Elon Musk, and the future of the NLRB. They dive into the creation of this important entity with the 1935 National Labor Relations Act to the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 that Kaufman says kept the US from becoming more of a socialist democracy. In the face of so many threats to labor organizing, Kaufman reminds listeners that nothing is static in politics. Reflecting on the ongoing litigation of Act 10, Kaufman stresses that Act 10 is still being contested because it’s outside the will of the people of the state. 

Dan Kaufman is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and the author of The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics.

Remix of the seal of the NLRB via Wikipedia.

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