The NLRB general counsel has accused US’s largest corporations of creating distractions to cover their law-breaking
The US’s top labor lawyer has said her agency will not “succumb” to Amazon, Starbucks and SpaceX’s attempts to legally challenge the National Labor Relations Board and its ability to enforce federal labor law.
Jennifer Abruzzo, the NLRB general counsel, accused some of the US’s largest corporations of “jumping on the bandwagon” in mounting legal challenges to the labor watchdog, which has found itself at the center of the ongoing battle between the companies and a wave of unionizing efforts by workers.
Attorneys representing Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Amazon, Trader Joe’s and Starbucks have all argued in recent months that the NLRB is “unconstitutional” and has overstepped its authority.
The video goes into a bunch more detail, but for me I think just take a step back. Why are you in the conversation? For me I like talking about this stuff and learning about it, and I think it’s productive to communicate my point of view. If you look at it like that, it’s easier to avoid getting sucked into a back and forth or just pointless bickering – like what’s the overall goal? I mean it’s fine just endlessly answering bad-faith arguments one after another if you want to, but usually it doesn’t feed any particular end goal. It’s just a waste of time.
If someone makes a substantive argument I’ll feel like I have to respond to it, but if they’re clearly just using the opportunity of us talking to blather a shifting series of stock flimsy Biden-is-bad constructions, then I don’t feed too much into it; I think it’s perfectly fine to just make my own series of constructions for my own point of view.