Washington Post: Amazon and SpaceX Aim to Defang the Federal Labor Board. Trump May Help.

Donald Trump’s presidential administration is poised to oversee major cuts to the powers of the federal agency that protects unions, as corporations including Elon Musk’s SpaceX barrage the National Labor Relations Board with lawsuits and Trump allies consider firing its Democratic members.

This week, Amazon, the nation’s second-largest private employer, and rocket maker SpaceX, founded by Trump adviser Musk, argued in federal court that the structure of the NLRB is unconstitutional. Theirs are among more than two dozen cases working their way through the courts that seek to drastically rein in the board’s power.

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If the NLRB loses much or all its power, workers would be at higher risk for retaliation from employers, said attorney Dan Ocampo with the nonprofit National Employment Law Project.

“We once existed in a regime where there was no labor law, and it wasn’t good for workers,” he said. “It was the 19th century, and cops were called in to break up strikes.”

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