Amazon — like SpaceX — is the latest company to claim the U.S. labor board is unconstitutional, after receiving numerous labor complaints from employees::Amazon has accused the National Labor Relations Board of being unconstitutional in a new legal filing, according to a report from The New York Times.

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    9 months ago

    It’s sickening how everything is suddenly “unconstitutional” since the supreme court turned republican.

    It’s silly how everything has to be according to a 200+ year old document, and how the interpretation of that document is arbitrarily changing at the whim of certain political influences.

    The US labor board has existed for 100+ years, and now it’s supposedly unconstitutional? Shut up.

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      9 months ago

      Sounds like religious texts. And just like those, conservatives love to dig out whatever is most convenient for them (and ignore the rest).

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      9 months ago

      A 200+ year old document which was designed and written deliberately to ensure that no one amassed too much power, and is now complicating individuals amassing too much power.

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        that is not what it was designed to do, I don’t know exactly where that little truism started, but that is bullcrap.

        it started as a way for a privileged, wealthy minority to make decisions on how to run a nation, and it still is doing that to this day. Separation of powers was nothing new when the founding fathers axed the articles of confederation and replaced it with the constitution.

        then again, if you think the US labor board is “individuals amassing too much power” what do you call the significantly smaller group like the speaker of the house/senate, a position the republicans have used for years to act as a veto stronger than the president by just not bringing up legislation?