Max Parrott at amNewYork reports the New York Attorney General’s Office and the Teamsters have turned a lawsuit over a State Labor Law into an appraisal of the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) failures. Recent filings by the Union and the State Attorney General in Amazon’s Federal case against New York’s recent attempt to expand Labor Relations enforcement capture a damning level of dysfunction in the local NLRB Offices’ ability to respond to alleged Labor Rights violations. A complaint that one Unionized Amazon Employee filed with the NLRB 29 months ago has not advanced past the first step of enforcement, and other Employees’ charges remain at that stage after 24 and 16 months, according to Court papers. In its lawsuit against New York, Amazon has successfully gotten a Federal Judge to pause the enforcement of the State Employment Relations Act (SERA) during litigation. That law would allow the State-level Employee Relations Board to have jurisdiction over Private-Sector labor disputes through the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) - the Federal Law governing Union formation and collective bargaining. State and Union Lawyers argue the Federal Court should dismiss the challenge to SERA, which they say takes a step to mitigate what they describe as a “labor enforcement no man’s land” due to the atrophy and political capture of the NLRB.

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