Trump’s firing of a federal agency head may soon spell doom for a New Deal era precedent that limited presidential power.

Under his new authority President Roosevelt last week began replacing the old National Labor Board with new and smaller agencies to ease the tension on the industrial front. The first board ...

In Mr. Roosevelt’s order setting up the board ... Woodrow Wilson set up a National War Labor Board to serve much the same purpose. It had no more authority than the present board.

It's a win for Trump's efforts to control agencies meant by Congress to be independent from the president, but the court ...

President Biden joined workers' advocates at the U.S. Labor Department this week to designate a new national monument in honor of FDR's long-serving labor secretary, Frances Perkins, who famously ...

After Roosevelt ... and recovery of the national economy. Though African Americans were not the intended audience for these programs, they benefitted as many citizens did. Labor laws that ...

The resulting National Industrial Recovery Act was a triumph, but in May 1935, the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in a decision that so angered Roosevelt that he threatened to expand ...

The court blocked orders by federal judges that stopped firings of Cathy Harris of the Merit Systems Protection Board and Gwynne Wilcox from being removed from the National Labor Relations Board ...