On June 16, 2025 President Trump announced two key nominations to the National Labor Relations Board: Scott Mayer and James Murphy. If confirmed, Mayer and Murphy will join Chairman Marvin Kaplan (Republican; term ends 8/27/25) and Member David Prouty (Democrat), restoring quorum to the agency after months of recurring vacancies and uncertainty. Given the Senate’s Republican-led majority, both nominations are likely to be confirmed. Either way, it seems Trump is ready to get the Board back to work.
The Nominees:
Scott Mayer currently serves as the Chief Labor Counsel at Boeing Company, where he advises on complex labor-management issues at one of the country’s largest aerospace firms. Mayer has extensive experience in management-side labor relations, having previously worked as the Regional Vice President of Labor & Employee Relations at InterContinental Hotels Group (2019 – 2022), as Vice President of Labor & Employment Legal Counsel at MGM Resorts International (2018 – 2019, and a private practice attorney at the law firms of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (2018) and Blank Rome LLP (1998 -2008). Scott Mayer earned his Juris Doctor from Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law in 1998. Prior to that, he completed his Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University in 1995.
James Murphy has extensive experience serving as an internal legal advisor to the Board, beginning with a student clerkship in 1974 and most recently as...
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