Federal Judge: Multiple Tenure Protections For NLRB Judges Are Unconstitutional

( December 12, 2024, 8:38 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — National Labor Relations Board administrative law judges (ALJs) are “‘officers of the United States’” and must not protected from presidential removal via multiple levels of protection, a federal judge in the District of Columbia ruled in a case brought by a Massachusetts acute-care hospital accused by the union representing its nurses of violating various provisions of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)....