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Amazon says US labor watchdog that filed labor charges violates constitution
(www.theguardian.com)
eat the rich. regulate monopolies!
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2024
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The punishment for union busting should be further empowerment of the union, not just a fine. The incentives are such that Amazon and Starbucks will never stop fighting their unions, and apparently even the federal government.
Starbucks might. They just got rid of the Union hating CEO. Dunno anything about the new guy other than, he comes from Chipotle, which isn't promising.
Voting as a block, the six rightwing justices who wield the supermajority threw out the supreme court’s own 1984 opinion in Chevron USA Inc v Natural Resources Defense Council, which has required the courts to defer to the knowledge of government experts in their reasonable interpretation of ambiguous laws.
The NRLB’s complaint against Amazon “should be dismissed because the General Counsel’s interpretation of the Act and requests to the National Labor Relations Board in this case implicates the Major Questions Doctrine and associated principles of non-delegation and therefore violate Article I of the United States Constitution,” Amazon’s attorneys wrote in their response, a copy of which was obtained by the Guardian.
The NLRB complaint “should be dismissed”, they added, because the agency’s procedures “violate Article II of the United States Constitution” by involving “the exercise of significant authority by an Officer of the United States who is improperly insulated from the President’s removal power”.
We'll have a king. No politician can save you, even if they wanted to.
US: So you didn't try to bust the unions and make backlash?
Amazon: no, no we did it, we just disagree that we can't do it.
US: Ohh so you have loopholes in the law that says you can't do that?
Amazon: Hold my beer
Amazon: Now that homelessness is a crime, and we don't pay our employees enough to afford a home, we are allowed to have slaves under the 14th amendment.
I'm semi-expecting that before I die there will be a push for some sort of "Right to labor law", which will allow companies to involuntarily force the unemployed into their employment at prison wages (after all, we wouldn't want the unemployed to give up their dreams, right? So we need to incentivize them to go out and get a real job)
The elites really do think think of us as property.
Slaver mentally is still very much very strong
All these barbones worker protections are a compromise. If we don't have those, then the alternative is violence.
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