The first major impact of the Peter Sung Ohr’s short tenure as General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board has been felt. A few days after withdrawing his predecessor Peter Robb’s litigation targeting the legality of neutrality agreements, Ohr issued a memo which wiped away most of Robb’s influence over the Board’s handling of its caseload.
Ohr’s memo is sort of meta, neutering many of Robb’s memos that he issued during his time as General Counsel. These memos—essentially functioning as directives to regional field staff to target certain cases for reversal or to amend past investigative methods—unflinchingly slanted NLRB case law towards employers by either making their lives easier in litigation or attacking longtime union practices.