In another attempt to combat President Donald Trump‘s policies, Del. C.T. Wilson is sponsoring legislation to establish the Maryland Labor Relations Board should the national iteration become weakened or snuffed out.
“This bill is basically about accountability and protecting workers’ rights,” Wilson, D-Charles, said at the Annapolis bill hearing Thursday.
The National Labor Relations Act went into effect in 1935, giving private-sector workers the ability to organize, unionize and participate in collective bargaining with their employers. That federal law is enforced by the National Labor Relations Board, which settles labor disputes.
Early in his second term, Trump fired a Democratic member of the five-person labor board, leaving it without a quorum.
According to Reuters, the U.S. Senate confirmed Trump’s appointments to the NLRB in late 2025, leaving the board in a position to take on cases but also more likely to favor employers’ positions in disputes.
Wilson said he is sponsoring the bill in the instance that federal protections for private-sector workers are “weakened or withdrawn,” adding that, at the time of the legislation’s drafting, the NLRB “was defunct.”
Although he recognized the bill might not be needed, he said it’s an important policy to have enshrined, and it would only be triggered if the NLRA is repealed, if there isn’t adequate membership on the NLRB or if its members cede their jurisdiction to settle disputes.
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