President Donald Trump nominated James Macy to serve as the third Republican Member of the National Labor Relations Board. Macy is a longtime management-side labor attorney and the current director of the Department of Labor’s Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs. If confirmed, Macy would give Republicans a 3-1 majority to revisit Biden-era precedent on key labor law doctrines. The current Board, with two Republican members, has adhered to Board practice of declining to reconsider certain prior rulings without three affirmative votes. The administration also renominated Democratic Member David Prouty, whose term expires in August, a move that would help maintain the Board’s quorum. The paired nominations position the agency to both preserve its ability to act and potentially shift its substantive direction toward employer-friendly policies.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld the denial of a preliminary injunction against the Biden Administration’s project labor agreement mandate. Associated Builders and Contractors Florida, et al. v. General Services Administration, et al., No. 25-11375 (11th Cir. Apr. 21, 2026). Although the court disagreed with the District Court’s irreparable harm analysis, it concluded that the defendant federal agencies acted within their procurement authority in requiring project labor agreements on large federal construction projects pursuant to the Presidential directive. The panel rejected the contractor group’s...