Too radical or not radical enough? US’s top labor lawyer in the spotlight

Jennifer Abruzzo would like to ease the path to forming unions and curb employers' coercion and intimidation

As the Biden administration lays claim to being the most pro-union in generations, many US labor leaders have hailed Jennifer Abruzzo as the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) most vigorously pro-union general counsel in decades.

The top lawyer at the body charged with enforcing US labor law has been hailed as a champion by some and as a radical" by her opponents. For others involved in the white-hot world of union organizing, she has not gone far enough.