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.
Massive corporations who stand to make unfathomable amounts of wealth if oversight is removed spend money to deconstruct and remove oversight.
Not a tough one to pick up on, is it?
Especially since SCOTUS ruled businesses are essentially people. :/
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 =)
Corporations are people, and all people are equal, but corporations are more equal than people.
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
Ane then it’ll be time to destroy things at work
SpaceX, Amazon, and Trader Joes are not mentioned in the constitution, so they should all be despanded as they are unconstitutional.
Damn you. You made my joke 8 hours ago!
So basically corporations aren’t just people, they’re sovereign citizens.
Fuck, that interpretation is so novel I think it might just fly with the current courts.
American corporations are becoming vassal states to the American government, who in turn, as the suzerain, limits itself to providing an army.
American corporations are becoming vassal states to the American government
Eh it’s actually the reverse…
Fuck all of these people.
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.
Maybe we should argue the corporation act is unconstitutional and dissolve all corporate veils. Everything that company does, the shareholders are personally responsible for.
If unions are illegal, police unions should be illegal too.
Split the fuck out of Amazon and Bezos.
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?
Big Bootstrap is out for blood
Bezos is volunteering to be barricaded into his already burning mansion
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Have you seen our lawmakers? Even the ones that want to help can’t do shit because half the people in Congress are just there to sabotage it and push a fascist agenda.
Bruh….I hate to tell you, but…
