President Donald Trump has removed a Democratic member of the U.S. National Labor Relations Board from office, an unprecedented move that will escalate an ongoing legal battle over the scope of the president's powers to control federal agencies.

As part of the flurry of executive actions taken during the first week of his administration, President Donald Trump has terminated the

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

The unprecedented moves leave the agencies unable to conduct even routine business and are likely to spur legal challenges.

President Trump on Monday fired two leaders of the National Labor Relations Board, in a major attack on workers’ rights and labor unions. Trump’s surprise removal of Democratic NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox came even though federal law says that board members can only be fired for neglect or malfeasance.

The removal of the National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel had been expected. But the firing of a Democratic member stops it from protecting workers’ rights, for now.

Democratic NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox called her removal “unprecedented and illegal” and vowed to challenge the decision.

Donald Trump is testing the limits of his power yet again—this time with the firing of multiple people on the National Labor Relations Board.

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

Donald Trump is rolling out a blitz of attacks on workers in hopes of paralyzing organized labor’s energy to fight back. But unions can only survive this onslaught by fighting, not by burying their heads in the sand.

President Donald Trump's firing of Gwynne Wilcox spurred the now former NLRB member to say she will be "pursuing all legal avenues" to challenge her removal from the five-member board three years before her term was set to expire,