Amazon, SpaceX and other companies are arguing the government agency that has protected labor rights since 1935 is actually unconstitutional
Amazon, SpaceX and other companies are arguing the government agency that has protected labor rights since 1935 is actually unconstitutional
Nearly a century after the National Labor Relations Board’s creation, big corporations are arguing that it violates the US Constitution.
"Everything I don't like is unconstitutional."
Wow, I've read the whole thing. If that goes through, they are going straight back to the 1880 labor's law, with child labor, no overtime and whatever the company wants to contract you. The consequences will be massive.
Sadly, it took blood and death to get the worker’s rights we do have, and only apathetic voters to lose them.
Modern Apathy failed to repair the damage, but the ENTHUSIASTIC giveaway of the country to the rich in both capital and power, the "Reagan revolution," is most directly responsible for the later Citizens United, Trump, and our imminent collapse.
Apathy didn't destroy this country for the people, Enthusiastic greed worship BY the people did. Greed is a personal failing, character deficit, and is every bit as dangerous and destructive to society as hatred. The Gordon Geckos and Mr. Potters of the nation are supposed to be hated, booed, and shunned by decent people for their antisocial activities, not worshipped as the celebrities and...🤮... Role models they are treated like today.
The owners have spent decades propagandizing us to forget what a societal poison greed is as they took over.
Oh I'm sorry it's not greed anymore. I meant
greedrational self-interest. Shout out to George Orwell.Mommy, the weak men created the hard times once again 😭
It's incredible. Let's see how those check and balance ⚖️ do now.
I'm honestly shocked I hadn't heard about this until now, seems like a big deal
This is the boiled frog effect.
If the SCOTUS creates enough national crises, and that's what they've been actively doing, rolling back the rights and protections of individuals while further empowering capital as citizens discover there is just no recourse, then the crises they continue to create, as dire as they are, just feel like another tuesday.
I thought that's what their goal has been, to get back to that time before workers had any protection
Why else do you think Bezos and Musk are touching themselves over this?
States have labor laws. It would differ by state.
Until the fascists take the fed and enforce their will on the states, which was their plan all along.
Trader Joe's is one of those other companies that is party to this. Trader Joe's doesn't believe in the rights of its workers either. I have stopped shopping at Trader Joe's and I encourage others to do the same.
My partner and I stopped shopping there for this reason too. The problem is, all companies are this evil. It's just a question of when they'll let it show
I'm anti-capitalist, but this makes it sound like all companies are equally evil, and differ only in their masks.
They're all exploitative to some degree, but the local acorporation running the affordable grocery store, or the incorporated truck driver - these companies can rise and fall, peopled by folks not looking to expand at all. They're just using the company template to support their lifeway.
This isn't to justify corporate profits, but to point out there are degrees, and your choices matter.
I would prefer to say "all publicly traded corporations are effectively amoral, and capable of any imaginable evil, if it is in their interests. It's just a question of when their interests will align with an evil action."
Private ownership of capital is antisocial and antidemocratic. Owner-operated private businesses, the classic "Mom and Pop" store, are still antidemocratic, but much more distinctive in character, and may be more pro-social. Worker-owned cooperatives are significantly better altogether.
They all would but only some did. Punish those ones
The problem is, all companies are this evil.
False equivalency fallacy on display. Not “all” are, unless you’re trying to cut TJs some slack. Just shop at a local grocery.
Also - “evil”? Poorly run, dishonest perhaps, greedy almost certainly. You want “evil”? Invade another country and kill people. Tell a teenage rape victim they can’t abort it and must carry to term. Make sure women can’t divorce an abusive husband if they’re pregnant. Real Evil is all over.
There’s plenty of real evil out there that needs shame - don’t use that word lightly.
The company that has people dying unattended and alone in their warehouses, despite 24/7 worker surveillance to ensure compliance with draconic worker rules even robots would protest against, doesn't believe in labour rights?
Goodness! I don't know what colour shocked is, but I'm positively radiant!
The people will be told by their leaders that this is the only way to defend the USA from the liberal left, and the Fox Viewers will cheer and support it.
Then when labor goes to shit, FOX will say it's also the lefts fault....
Blue Origin also sued NASA a few years ago for not being awarded some contract.
Guess this is the new fad for bored billionaires.
Is it time to coin 'Late Stage America' or should we go straight to ' The Decline and Fall of the
RomanAmerican Empire'It would help your case more if you called it the fall of the Republic, but that would involve admitting the Empire stage will be around for a lot longer
Yeah, but it’s also more accurate to how we’re crumbling. The republic died to social divisions and demagogues eventually done in by a populist who sought nothing but his own power and was too comfortable breaking the rules to advance himself.
Now I will acknowledge the difference here, Caesar seemed to actually improve the lives of the Roman proletarii whereas Trump doesn’t. Because our collapse is in many ways closer to the fall of the Weimar Republic when it comes to the details.
Though we also must acknowledge that the Roman republic was also an empire. Republics don’t like acknowledging when we’re empires.
In no way is it 'my case', but you're not wrong, perhaps unfortunately, simply an allegory to a famous book.
That's a great movie from Quebec btw.
The Decline of the American Empire for those playing at home... Looks fun.
And yet all you Americans will do is complain on social media about it. Which is exactly why conservatives are comfortable pulling this shit.
the blame does not squarely lie in complacency
Not for long!
The problem is the SCOTUS has a non zero chance of being in favor of this because they are fedsoc clowns who shit over the constitution they represent
The question is: will they allow adding cocaine into coca-cola once again or they expect that surplus productivity will come from nowhere?
Take their companies and make them public agencies. Wanna bitch about unconstitutional, now we’ll give you a reason to complain
"Companies with massive amounts of labor-related complaints and worker issues say institutions designed to protect the overworked laboring class is unconstitutional"
Yes, I am sure they can be unbiased here.
They are just asking for another Haymarket
"hurr durr the us is a democracy"
I'm going to start grinding my hammer and sickle. They might come in handy one of these days.
Is trademark law constitutional?
Considering it's commerce clause, probably not. Other IP is constitutionally created, though, and that should also be illegal.
There should be still a legal limitation of presenting your product as something it isn't. So maybe trademark law is actually the one thing that should remain of IP laws.
But patents and owning characters in fiction and copyright kill any beginning they touch with the wrong end. There's so much ingenuity and development out of existence, usually out of discussion and often even out of imagination just because of these laws.