Amazon says in a federal lawsuit that the NLRB's structure is unconstitutional
Source: Associated Press
Amazon says in a federal lawsuit that the NLRB’s structure is unconstitutional
By HALELUYA HADERO
Updated 12:26 PM EDT, September 6, 2024
Amazon is challenging the structure of the National Labor Relations Board in a lawsuit that also accuses the agency of improperly influencing the outcome of a union election at a company warehouse more than two years ago.
The complaint, filed Thursday at a federal court in San Antonio, mirrors legal arguments the tech giant made in front of the agency earlier this year after NLRB prosecutors accused the company of maintaining policies that made it challenging for workers to organize and retaliating against some who did so.
In the new legal filing, attorneys for Amazon pointed back to a lawsuit the agency filed against the company in March 2022, roughly a week before voting for a union election was set to begin at a company warehouse in the New York borough of Staten Island.
Amazon views the agency’s lawsuit, which sought to force the company to give a union organizer his job back, as improperly influencing the outcome of the election. The company has also cited the action as one of its objections to the historic election, where workers voted in favor of union representation for the first time in the U.S.
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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/amazon-nlrb-50ee06d87d4eaef22386382761335ef8
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Other entities he owns are unionized - For example, WaPo is unionized:
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Not allowing his Amazon employees to unionize (and calling the NRLB "unconstitutional"0 shows how deep his scabbery runs...
