Retired NLRB Official’s Discrimination Lawsuit Tossed From Court

March 11, 2026, 5:58 PM UTC

A federal judge threw out a former National Labor Relations Board official’s race and sex bias lawsuit against the agency.

Former NLRB administration director Gloria Joseph failed to show the agency’s legitimate reasons for removing her from key roles were pretexts masking any unlawful discrimination, District Judge Christopher Cooper ruled Tuesday.

Joseph, once the highest-ranking Black woman in the NLRB, retired in 2012 following a nearly 50-year career with the agency. Her lawsuit focused on events during the final year of her service, when she was working under then-Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon. She had settled an Equal Employment Opportunity ...

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