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submitted 8 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Amazon is arguing in a legal filing that the 88-year-old National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional, echoing similar arguments made this year by Elon Musk’s SpaceX and the grocery store chain Trader Joe’s in disputes about workers’ rights and organizing.

The Amazon filing, made Thursday, came in response to a case before an administrative law judge overseeing a complaint from agency prosecutors who allege the company unlawfully retaliated against workers at a New York City warehouse who voted to unionize nearly two years ago.

In its filing, Amazon denies many of the charges and asks for the complaint to be dismissed. The company’s attorneys then go further, arguing that the structure of the agency — particularly limits on the removal of administrative law judges and five board members appointed by the president — violates the separation of powers and infringes on executive powers stipulated in the Constitution.

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[-] unmagical@lemmy.ml 165 points 8 months ago

Massive corporations who stand to make unfathomable amounts of wealth if oversight is removed spend money to deconstruct and remove oversight.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 43 points 8 months ago

Not a tough one to pick up on, is it?

[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 36 points 8 months ago

Especially since SCOTUS ruled businesses are essentially people. :/

[-] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 32 points 8 months ago

Someone should leave some weed in an Amazon warehouse and then tell the police to raid, it would be great to see an Amazon warehouse locked up for 20 years for possession =)

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 28 points 8 months ago

Corporations are people, and all people are equal, but corporations are more equal than people.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 85 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

If we don't launch a general strike when the fascist Court guts the already weak NLRB then we're going to lose everything. We're already bringing back child labor, we're already not lettting people retire, we're already allowing union busting, but with the NLRB gone we're fucked.

[-] Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago

Got Out while the gettin' was good. Get out while you can...It ain't easy but it is manageable. Save yourselves.

[-] Meltrax@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago

Wtf does this even mean? Get out how?

[-] SnotFlickerman 43 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It means they were privileged enough to "escape" as if the spectre of the worlds largest military in the hands of tyrannical fascists won't affect other places, too.

Further, it's a real "I got out, you just need to pull yourselves up by your bootstraps" bullshit vibe that judges the weakest for being unable to escape.

The privileged will be happy to escape and leave the rest of us to suffer while preaching about how they saw it all coming and so should have we, as if we didn't see it coming instead of simply not having the privilege to escape.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 14 points 8 months ago

America will start WW3 if we let it.

No where is safe.

[-] Entropywins@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago

Never has been

[-] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 11 points 8 months ago

Lol, our bullshit is spreading.

You didn't get out, you just bought yourself a year or two.

[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 77 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Of all the nightmarish shit on our horizon I think this one is the biggest overall threats, if the government can’t regulate labor policies not only will worker abuse intensify but soon all regulations will fall and giant corporations will complete their transformation into mammoth entities of dystopian sci fi. Your Weyland-Yutanis, Arasakas, Shin-Ras, Choam’s, and Dutch East India Companies. And above all else climate change will not be mitigated in any way

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 14 points 8 months ago

Money speaks for money,

The Devil for his own.

Who comes to speak for the skin and the bone?

[-] 800XL@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Ane then it'll be time to destroy things at work

[-] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 71 points 8 months ago

SpaceX, Amazon, and Trader Joes are not mentioned in the constitution, so they should all be despanded as they are unconstitutional.

[-] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 months ago

Damn you. You made my joke 8 hours ago!

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 46 points 8 months ago

So basically corporations aren't just people, they're sovereign citizens.

[-] bramblepatchmystery@slrpnk.net 10 points 8 months ago

Fuck, that interpretation is so novel I think it might just fly with the current courts.

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 8 months ago

American corporations are becoming vassal states to the American government, who in turn, as the suzerain, limits itself to providing an army.

[-] GhostFence@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

American corporations are becoming vassal states to the American government

Eh it's actually the reverse...

[-] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 45 points 8 months ago

Fuck all of these people.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 35 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

to me, this means its too late.

they already know the answer. the SC is bought and paid for. they have clearly already been informed that bringing this will garner the result they want.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago

Maybe we should argue the corporation act is unconstitutional and dissolve all corporate veils. Everything that company does, the shareholders are personally responsible for.

[-] randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 8 months ago

If unions are illegal, police unions should be illegal too.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 months ago

As we all know, the law is always applied equally to cops 🙃

[-] meco03211@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

The law is just applied more ~~heavily~~ equally to ~~peasants~~ citizens.

[-] Poggervania@kbin.social 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I’ll be more than happy to let go of the NLB if it means corporations and the ultrarich will be taxed 100% for any income or wealth above $1 million USD with any and all loopholes closed.

Unfortunately that will never happen, so it’s just fucking disgusting things with money can attempt to dictate shit like this.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

Split the fuck out of Amazon and Bezos.

[-] whoelectroplateuntil@sh.itjust.works 11 points 8 months ago

Considering that the literal modern social contract is predicated on, at least, the formal right to organize, which in turn is underpinned by the NLRB, if the fascist supreme court overturns it, that means workers will be footloose and fancy-free in terms of national allegiance, huh?

[-] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Big Bootstrap is out for blood

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Bezos is volunteering to be barricaded into his already burning mansion

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