Like many other Obama-era realities, the rats may not survive the Trump administration.
In 2011, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that the union tradition of using giant inflatable rodents to protest employers using nonunion contractors is protected free speech.
But Peter Robb, a Trump appointee who took over as the federal agency’s general counsel in November, is looking to reverse the decision, according to NLRB and union attorneys.
That’s just one of several efforts to make the agency more employer-friendly, reflecting the administration’s antipathy to workers’ rights, labor advocates say.