'Really insidious': Amazon, SpaceX, Trader Joe's, and Starbucks are united in war on unions

The latest tactic in the 2024 war on workers has made itself known! It’s claiming the federal agency created to protect them is “unconstitutional.” So far this year, three corporations—SpaceX, Trader Joe’s, and most recently, Amazon—have argued that the National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional.

Amazon made its “unconstitutional” filing Feb. 15, in response to allegations that the company violated federal labor laws by retaliating against warehouse workers who voted to unionize in 2022. Despite Amazon’s multimillion-dollar union-busting tactics, the Staten Island warehouse became the company’s first unionized facility in the U.S.  

HuffPost wrote that the challenge to the NLRB “would appear to fit inside a broader conservative effort to dismantle the regulatory state, which has taken aim at agencies tasked with enforcing laws to protect workers, consumers and the environment.”

Unsurprisingly, the conservative Federalist Society was pushing the “unconstitutional” argument as recently as last November.