‘No way’: US labor watchdog refuses to bow to SpaceX, Amazon and Starbucks
‘No way’: US labor watchdog refuses to bow to SpaceX, Amazon and Starbucks
The NLRB general counsel has accused US’s largest corporations of creating distractions to cover their law-breaking
The NLRB general counsel has accused US’s largest corporations of creating distractions to cover their law-breaking
The US’s top labor lawyer has said her agency will not “succumb” to Amazon, Starbucks and SpaceX’s attempts to legally challenge the National Labor Relations Board and its ability to enforce federal labor law.
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 that the NLRB is “unconstitutional” and has overstepped its authority.
But I was assured by Lemmy commenters that the Biden administration was rabidly anti-labor
They felt super strongly about it and kept talking as if it was widely acknowledged
Oh those tankies will always get you if you let them.
TIL Biden invented the NLRB. Your attempt at a whataboutism is frankly pathetic and completely moronic even for the intent you have. Do better.
TIL Biden invented the NLRB
Actually this is a common misconception -- the NLRB dates back to 1935. Biden was negative seven years old then; he had nothing to do with it.
In fact, he took the fairly unusual step of firing Peter Robb who Trump had put in charge of it, which was widely viewed as yet another in his string of horrifying union busting, since Robb had brought in his strong credentials of classifying Uber drivers as contractors instead of employees, and helping with Reagan's absolutely historic breaking of the air traffic controller's strike, which ushered in a whole new era of labor relations which has blessed us with the new economic landscape we've been in ever since the 80s.
Absolutely normal stuff for the NLRB and yet another example of how all these corporatized candidates are all exactly the same, and too bad we got Biden who started undoing all of it. I was hoping for Jo Jorgenson.
This is so encouraging. We're trying to unionize my workplace right now in a deep red "right to work" state. This NLRB has been pulling out so many stops to get unions back up and kicking ass... I can criticize the Biden WH for a lot (including not letting the RR workers go on strike... but that actually has nothing to do with the NLRB weirdly enough), but his NLRB has been really rabid about turning back the clock on corporate power.