Labor Lawlessness
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It's no shock that dedicated union buster Elon Musk sicced his minions on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) — but the way those churlish youths are handling the agency's data seems extremely suspicious.
As NPR reports, staffers with the billionaire's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) could have stolen corporate secrets, ongoing legal disputes, and private union information when they rifled through the labor watchdog's internal servers earlier this year.
According to Daniel Berulis, the NLRB whistleblower who made these damning allegations to Congress and in subsequent interviews with NPR, DOGE engineers extracted troves of data from the agency's systems.
In his Congressional disclosure, Berulis also claimed that attacks from a Russian IP address occurred within minutes of DOGE gaining access to the NLRB's servers.
Internal documentation of the alleged breach attempt and the strange spike in data extraction — an alarming and unusual occurrence at the independent agency, per dozens of experts that NPR spoke to — corroborates the whistleblower's story. But the agency's press secretary, Tim Bearese, denies that any such breach occurred and claimed that DOGE neither asked for nor was granted access to NLRB systems in the first place.
"I can't attest to what their end goal was or what they're doing with the data," Berulis told NPR....
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