White said he saw an opposite impact on management. “When you’re facing an agency that is openly pro-union, it makes it more difficult for employers to make and act on decisions that are lawful but that they don’t want to be perceived as unlawful,” he said.

Kayla Blado, director of the Office of Congressional and Public Affairs at the NLRB, defended the agency’s record under Biden.

“The National Labor Relations Act is a law that protects workers’ rights,” she said in a…