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Until a few months ago, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) enjoyed an existence similar to that of several other independent government agencies. Apart from labor and management specialists who scrutinize its every move, few people knew of the board’s existence, and after years of failing to update its practices, fewer still considered it relevant to their daily working lives.

Those days must now seem like an age away for the NLRB’s four members and Acting General Counsel (AGC), who have reluctantly been making headline news since April. Under constant and frequently ferocious attack from the GOP leadership and conservative pundits, they must now be longing for a return to dull normality and relative obscurity.

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