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.com has joined rocket maker SpaceX and grocery chain Trader Joe's in claiming that a US labor agency's in-house enforcement proceedings violate the..
SpaceX is making similar claims against the board in a lawsuit filed last month, one day after the. accused the company of firing eight engineers for criticizing CEO Elon Musk in a letter to company executives...
Trader Joe's raised the arguments later in January at a hearing in an NLRB case, and two Starbucks baristas seeking to dissolve their unions have challenged the board's structure in separate lawsuits...
The growing number of challenges to the labor board make it more likely the issue will reach the US Supreme Court, whose conservative majority has signaled its skepticism of other US agencies' in-house proceedings, said Seth Goldstein, a lawyer who represents unions in the Amazon and Trader Joe's cases...
Goldstein said the pending cases also could embolden other employers to refuse to bargain with unions on the belief that courts will strip the NLRB of its enforcement powers...
