@cdarwin@c.im2024-04-01 01:16:44
Amazon, SpaceX, Starbucks and Trader Joe’s have all responded to allegations that they have violated labor laws with the same bold argument. The National Labor Relations Board, they assert in several ongoing legal proceedings, is unconstitutional.
SpaceX, for example, says that the NLRB is engaging in “an unlawful attempt … to subject Space X to an administrative proceeding whose structure violates Article II, the Fifth Amendment, and the Seventh Amendment of the Constitution of the Uni…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2024-02-16 21:35:51
Court filing: Amazon claims the NLRB is unconstitutional, after the agency said Amazon illegally retaliated against workers; SpaceX has made a similar claim (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/business/economy/amazon-labor-n…
@cdarwin@c.im2024-04-23 02:25:27
‘No way’: US labor watchdog refuses to bow to SpaceX, Amazon and Starbucks
Jennifer Abruzzo, the NLRB general counsel, accused some of the US’s largest corporations of “jumping on the bandwagon” in mounting legal challenges to the labor watchdog, which has found itself at the center of the ongoing battle between the companies and a wave of unionizing efforts by workers.
Attorneys representing Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Amazon, Trader Joe’s and Starbucks have all argued in recent months …
@Techmeme@techhub.social2024-02-16 21:35:51
Court filing: Amazon claims the NLRB is unconstitutional, after the agency said Amazon illegally retaliated against workers; SpaceX has made a similar claim (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/business/economy/amazon-labor-n…
@cdarwin@c.im2024-03-10 21:46:31
Major US corporations threaten to return labor to ‘law of the jungle’
Upset by the surge in union drives, several of the best-known corporations in the US are seeking to cripple the country’s top labor watchdog, the National Labor Relations Board ( #NLRB ), by having it declared #unconstitutional.
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