#Apple fired me in a blatant & egregious act of retaliation for reporting real safety issues; yet Apple's so powerful, they were able to avoid putting anything on the record about it with the government for years, even with #NLRB & #DOL charges filed before I was fired.
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.
Some labor experts warn that if those efforts succeed, US labor relations might return to “the law of the jungle”.
In recent weeks, Elon Musk’s #SpaceX as well as #Amazon, #Starbucks and #TraderJoe’s have filed legal papers that advance novel arguments aimed at #hobbling and perhaps #shutting#down the NLRB
– the federal agency that enforces labor rights and oversees unionization efforts.
Those companies are eager to thwart the NLRB 👉after it accused Amazon, Starbucks and Trader Joe’s of breaking the law in battling against unionization and accused SpaceX of illegally firing eight workers for criticizing Musk.
Roger King, a longtime management-side lawyer who is senior labor counsel for the HR Policy Association, said “it will be a lose-lose” if the federal courts overturn the 89-year-old National Labor Relations Act, which has governed labor relations since Franklin Roosevelt was president.
“We’ll have the law of the jungle, the law of the streets,” King said. “It will be who has the most power. It’s potential for chaos.”
Kate Andrias, a Columbia University law professor, said workers would be hurt if the courts issue a sweeping decision that declares both the NLRB and the National Labor Relations Act unconstitutional.
“Without them, workers will be even worse off,” she said. “It’s critical that they continue to exist to protect the basic right to organize and engage in collective bargaining. This is an assault on rights we have considered fundamental since the New Deal.”
"People on the left and right extremes of the political spectrum are often branded as radicals. Ha. There is nothing—nothing—as radical as unbridled capital. It possesses the radicalism of a machine with a mission"
Goddammit, if anyone here knows Hamilton Nolan, pls drag him over here, we need him
Attention Trader Joe's shoppers!
Instead of allowing Trader Joe's workers to unionize, the company is arguing, in court, that the NLRB shouldn't exist, the same argument Elon Musk's Space X is making: https://bit.ly/3Om0NKN
They're wasting our money we spend there on this. The only place I've found to leave feedback is for their stores. Let them know you aren't happy about this & that you support their workers: https://bit.ly/42iripX
#TraderJoes United, the independent labor union for Trader Joe's employees, is currently not calling for a boycott in response to management's attack on the constitutionality of the #NLRB (National Labor Relations Board).
Right now they are "asking folks to support Trader Joe’s United by signing on in solidarity and letting us know you’ll stand with us if we call for a customer strike!"
Can the dark forces of bus can be stopped? They yield power bc their wealth buys diabolical legal minds:
Musk’s SpaceX, Starbucks... are using new legal playbook against unions.
“One of the most audacious & bold attempts to reverse the decisions of the 1930s & the way in which American labor law has operated for nearly 90 yrs -would raise havoc with the effective admin. of labor law -designed to be for the benefit of workers/collective bargaining pr-.”
SpaceX, the space flight company owned by Elon Musk, illegally fired eight employees after they criticized Musk’s social media behavior, a new complaint from the National Labor Relations Board alleges.
One of Apple's lawyers emailed me this week to tell me she doesn't think she violated the #NLRA, and I was like, oh sweet baby, you're going to have to explain that to the federal investigator now, not to me.