post<\/a> about Sarah, Izzy’s wife, he had been a member of the Communist Party as a youth and this involvement (although he had not been a member since the late 1930’s and may have been kicked out of the Party) brought him to the attention of the McCarthy investigation in the early 1950s in Washington.\u00a0 Consequently, he was allowed to resign from the NLRB in the summer of 1952 and the family returned to upstate New York.\u00a0 They settled in Syracuse after a short time and Iz once again opened a law practice.\u00a0 He worked for the AFL-CIO for some time as part of this practice, thus continuing his labor law practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since Labor Day was just celebrated in the U.S., work is the topic for the week.\u00a0 It seems appropriate to feature my father-in-law for this post.\u00a0 Izzy Greenberg was, for most of his working life, a labor lawyer.\u00a0 Although he …<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 created the National Labor Relations Board as an independent federal agency tasked with enforcing U.S. labor laws specifically with respect to unfair labor practices and collective bargaining.\u00a0 The organization was hiring and a position as an attorney to do this sort of work was right up Izzy\u2019s alley in terms of his interests and beliefs.\u00a0 He set himself up to take the nation-wide examination for a job applicants to the NLRB and scored very well.\u00a0 He was offered a position and about 1941 (or 1942) moved to the Washington D.C. area.\u00a0 There are a couple of hazy questions here:\u00a0 the NLRB was structured with regional offices so I don\u2019t know if Izzy started at a regional office first, and I haven\u2019t pinned down specifically when they moved to Washington.<\/p>\n