The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with SpaceX earlier this week, ruling that the National Labor Relations Board’s current structure is unconstitutional. The decision will keep the agency hamstrung until the case makes its way to the Supreme Court.
Wait
Wait wasn’t the NLRB put in place to chill unions?
Like to placate them? Like they literally armed themselves to the teeth and unions scared the shit out of owners?
Do… Does the circuit not know that or am I thinking of something else?
They don’t want the placated. They want unions crushed underfoot. Trump and Co. want to bring back the days when they could use armed troops to shoot strikers and even bomb them. I’m not even joking. Trump wants a return to the robber-baron ruled gilded age.
Sounds like it’s they want another fight akin to the 19th and early 20th centuries…
We need a few more sherifs like 'Ol Smiling Cid Hatfield.
Thanks for sharing, I didn’t know about him. For anyone else reading this look up the Coal Wars and the Homestead Strike.
Labor has always had to kill, die, and fight against Capital for the rights we have today. They don’t really teach these things in school (I think I learned about the Pinkertons in AP US History) because it would give Labor too much cultural power, but it’s crucial for US citizens (and anyone really) to understand what it has taken to get to where we are.
Man that strikes me as so odd.
They live better now than the robber barons did. If we regress to such an age, their standard of living goes with it.
The only reason we have modern materials and standards is because
Well
Almost entirely because unions put the standards there.
They have no idea what they have. No idea where it comes from.
I don’t think it’s entirely about how they live. I really think it’s more about the little people getting a decent wage and decent treatment. They don’t want that. They want to be able to do anything they want to anyone they want and for their victims to have no recourse. They want power over the poor. The cruelty really is the point.
They just don’t care. It’s just like what they are doing with federal workers who can’t use strikes as a collective bargaining tool. The MSPB was made to pacify federal workers and offer some sort of protection from partisan politics.
So trump just fired the board members so they couldn’t make a quorum, and of course the supreme Court allowed it. They are relying on the fact that most Americans are too comfortable to risk jail time to stand up for their rights.
Its not just jail time, its a permeant black spot on your record that signals you’ll be “trouble” to employers and law enforcement both. Its legal fees, stigma, and being perpetually viewed with suspicion. I’m just trying to say it isn’t comfort, its fear.