His unlawful purge of the National Labor Relations Board on Monday serves all three goals at once. With these firings, Trump has paralyzed the board, asserted control over its agenda, and engineered a legal showdown over the scope of his constitutional authority.

The dismissals target two independent agencies that oversee swaths of U.S. workers, employers and labor unions.

Suppressing unions to favor big business is not popular or populist. is Trump going to far? Union approval is at an all time high.

Some agency employees who President Donald Trump terminated from their leadership roles Monday night are now “considering legal options.”

In another late-night firing, President Trump removed Gwynne Wilcox from the National Labor Relations Board—a move she called "unprecedented and illegal." Because it already had vacancies, the board now lacks a quorum and cannot issue decisions.