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US PoliticsAmazon argues that national labor board is unconstitutional, joining SpaceX and Trader Joe's (apnews.com)

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[–]epimetheuss 60 points61 points  (13 children)

companies should not get to decide what is constitutional or not, just are required to work within the framework provided.

[–]MeisterX 4 points5 points  (7 children)

What you're saying is companies should have no standing to petition the government as entities, meaning only individuals could do that, which goes directly back to Citizens United.

It's.. Not the most terrible idea I've ever hear but needs some distillation.

[–]epimetheuss 4 points5 points  (5 children)

Companies and organizations are not individuals and should not have rights of one. This is abused more than it helps, just some companies have found a way to spin it to a positive while most use it to take from others.

[–]MeisterX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I support this idea, it's how to implement it in practice. For example, you couldn't restrict two corporations' ability to sue each other.

[–]Jeveran 41 points42 points  (5 children)

The National Labor Relations Board has two principal functions under the National Labor Relations Act: (1) The prevention of statutorily defined unfair labor practices on the part of employers and labor organizations or the agents of either, and (2) the conduct of secret-ballot elections among employees in appropriate collective-bargaining

Amazon, SpaceX, and Trader Joe's are telling the US they're anti-union.

[–]epimetheuss 14 points15 points  (2 children)

trader joes wants to be the next grocery walmart, amazon wants to be the next walmart period and spacex is just run by a goof who idolizes and follows all right wing ideologies including stealing from and shitting on employees every chance they get in every way they possibly can

[–]bubblesort 13 points14 points  (6 children)

I don't think they realize that the NLRB is set up to protect them from us, not to protect us from them. If they win this legal battle, they will be the dog that caught the car. Their companies will burn.

[–]Rommie557 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Stop the ride. I want off.