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‘Accused Of Violating Worker Rights,’ SpaceX & Amazon ‘Go After’ The NLRB

Published Monday, November 18, 2024
by Labor News Story Link To National Public Radio (NPR)
‘Accused Of Violating Worker Rights,’ SpaceX & Amazon ‘Go After’ The NLRB

Andrea Hsu at NPR reports in the nearly four years Joe Biden has been President, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has taken an assertive - some say overly aggressive - approach to protecting Workers' rights to organize and collectively bargain.  Now, SpaceX and Amazon are at the forefront of a corporate-led effort to monumentally change the Labor Agency.  Attorneys for the two companies are going to try to convince a panel of Judges at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that the NLRB, created by Congress in 1935, is unconstitutional.  Their lawsuits are among more than two dozen challenges brought by companies who say the NLRB's structure gives it unchecked power to shape and enforce Labor Law.  A ruling in favor of the companies could make it much harder for Workers to form Unions and take collective action in pursuit of better wages and working conditions.  That would be an enormous setback for the Labor Movement, which has enjoyed unprecedented support from the Biden Administration, and a win for companies that have spent considerable amounts of resources over the past four years trying to keep Unions out of their workplaces.

To Read This Labor News Story In Its Entirety, Go To: Accused of violating worker rights, SpaceX and Amazon go after labor board | WYSO

 

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