Jonathan Stempel at Reuters reports Amazon has sued the New York State Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) to block it from enforcing a new law the On-Line Retailer considers an attempt to illegally regulate Private Sector Labor Relations. In a complaint filed in Federal Court in Brooklyn, Amazon accused New York of engineering an "unconstitutional power grab" by letting the regulator known as PERB usurp the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) primary authority to address Union Organizing, Collective Bargaining and workplace disputes. The New York law - known as Senate Bill 8034A, was signed on September 5th by Governor Kathy Hochul, who said it was needed to protect Workers because of the lack of a quorum at the NLRB, where hundreds of cases have backed up since Republican President Donald Trump fired Democratic member Gwynne Wilcox in January.

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