14/14 - US laws w/ affirmative rights include: #NLRA, LMRDA, FSLA, Civil Rights Act, ADA, ADEA, PWFA, EPA, DBA, FMLA, PUMP, #SpeakOutAct, #OSHA, FTC Non-Complete Rule. Then in California, there's about 200 more.
In 1932, Congress even had to enact a statute stripping courts of jurisdiction to hear labor disputes #NorrisLaGuardiaAct
Courts cannot nullify worker rights with procedural discovery orders. But courts act like they can do that, en masse & by default, apparently.
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10/x - I've objected that courts can't issue gag orders or ok #NDAs w/out a full evidentiary hearing, & laws like #NLRA & #SilencedNoMore prohibit courts from creating contracts that conceal labor & harassment disputes. The court acted like I was speaking a foreign language
So that's prob why big biz allowed STAND Act, Silenced No More, Speak Out Act get enacted
Employers like Apple knew they'd still use discovery "protective orders" for the same effect & also get a meta-NDA about the process
Fifth Circuit Court NLRB ruling sides with Elon Musk, weakens workers’ rights
Minneapolis, MN – On August 19, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld orders from a lower court blocking the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from proceeding in its complaint against Elon Musk. The NLRB said eight workers’ legal rights were violated when they were fired from Musk’s SpaceX for sharing an open letter criticizing his behavior.
Taft-Hartley Act Still Undercutting Labor 78 Years Later
Taft-Hartley marked the beginning of a long-term strategy to isolate, weaken, and demobilize organized labor in the US.
Postal employees rally against #DOGE: "It’s about rich versus poor. Who built this country? It wasn’t people in suits. It was people in coveralls."
https://www.labornotes.org/2025/03/postal-workers-throng-500-rallies-save-postal-service
#union #unions #privatization #neoliberalism #corruption #USPS #APWU #NALC #Trump #DonaldTrump #LouisDeJoy #LaborRights #NLRA #WellsFargo #FightLikeHell #BrianRenfroe #NRLCA #capitalism #exploitation #ClassWar
From big cities to small towns, postal workers organized hundreds of rallies across the country in the past week to defend a beloved public service—and the nation’s largest union employer—against privatization and DOGE attack. “Whose Postal Service?” workers chanted in New York: “The people’s Postal Service.” “U.S. Mail Is Not for Sale” was the rallying cry March 20 at 250 rallies organized by the Postal Workers (APWU). “Fight Like Hell” was the theme March 23 for another 210 rallies led by the Letter Carriers (NALC). A hundred people came out to the NALC rally in St.
The more I think about this piece, the more I think about the social contract. It’s there for everyone’s safety, especially for the wealthy. Us plebes allow them to survive in exchange for a decent food on our table, a solid roof over our head, and a weekend. We’ve tried doing it the way they wanted, but things didn’t work out so well. The NLRA was a *peace* treaty.
Apple finally filed its Answer to the NLRB's Complaint about Apple threatening, suspending, & firing me in 2021
This is the first public "answer" Apple's ever filed about retaliating against me
Apple's defense is, (checks notes): the complaint violates Apple's Constitutional right to harass me
#Apple argues that NLRB's Complaint against them, alleging that Apple suspending & firing me violates the NLRA, is that the #NLRA, #NLRB, & this complaint, all violate the US Constitution. #BadApple
The future of the #NLRB: if #RulingClass guts #NLRA, workers and #unions may press for demands in streets, a venue where they have advantage
https://www.labornotes.org/2025/01/dark-clouds-gather-national-labor-relations-board
#union #MVTransportation #Biden #LaurenMcFerran #Stericycle #Cemex #Amazon #DonaldTrump #ALJ #SpaceX #TraderJoes #capitalism #corruption #exploitation #ClassWar
December saw a number of important developments at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The month started well for unions but ended badly. Some observers complained of whiplash! THE GOOD On December 10, the five-member board, still under Democratic control, issued a long-awaited decision freeing unions from the most deleterious features of management-rights clauses. The case, Endurance Environmental Solutions, LLC, overruled MV Transportation, a 2019 decree from Donald Trump’s first term in office.
‘disgusting, illegal, and totally predictable from these two clowns’ is well phrased
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2024/08/13/uaw-files-labor-claims-against-musk-trump/74780772007/
America’s Richest Men Ask the Courts to Make Unions Illegal
Fourscore and seven years ago
—1937, to be exact—
our fathers on the Supreme Court (well, five of them, which was just enough) brought forth a new nation:
#New #Deal America.
In that year, the justices ruled that the most fundamental legislative works of Franklin Roosevelt’s presidency
—Social Security and the National Labor Relations Act ( #NLRA )
—were constitutional.
So said the Court; so said, in the NLRA case, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the decision’s author, who had been the Republican candidate for president in 1916.
From these decisions, which 🔸saved seniors from destitution 🔸and 💥enabled workers to form unions, 💥a broadly shared #prosperity emerged that gave the nation a middle-class majority for the three decades after World War II.
Now we are engaged in a war with the rulers of the new economy, who, having already downsized that middle class by appropriating an ever larger share of the proceeds from its work for themselves, actually want to strike down the NLRA.
In the past few weeks, three pillars of that economy
—Elon Musk’s #SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’s #Amazon, and the Albrecht family’s #TraderJoe's
—have all asked federal courts to declare the core functions of the NLRA #unconstitutional, on the grounds that the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) #administrative #courts, 🔹like those of other regulatory agencies, 🔹mix judicial functions with executive branch functions.
In actual practice, what those bodies do is hear and rule on cases such as those brought by workers on organizing campaigns who’ve been illegally fired.
What Elon and Jeff would prefer is that federal courts hear such cases directly, which guarantees that
👉by the time they reach the bench, those organizing campaigns will have become a dim memory
Ashley M. Gjøvik, JD
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