KGIII Matchup
Monica Bertagnolli (NIH)
vs.
Jennifer Abruzzo (NLRB)
Hiding her name under a bushel. As NIH Director, Bertagnolli protected a sexist policy at the agency that does not allow all versions of scientific researchers’ names to appear in searches on its PubMed search engine. Since this policy disproportionately affects women who change their names due to marriage or divorce, it violates the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment guarantees to equal protection under the law. A physician at the globally renowned Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. Marsha Reyngold has published under different surnames due to a prior name change. Because PubMed does not cross-reference her publications under different names, her full body of work is not easily accessible, negatively impacting her opportunities for grants and speaking engagements.
Move over NLRB, there’s a new General Counsel in town. National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo used her four years in power to push for Board rulings that overturned decades of legal precedent and often infringed on key constitutional rights. Examples include violating due process rights by allowing for unionization without a secret election; chilling free speech by advocating for, and successfully obtaining a ban on meetings where employers present their views on the disadvantages of unionization; and due process and freedom of speech concerns presented by her efforts to ban non-compete agreements.
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