Biden Labor Appointee Fires Back At 'Lawbreakers' SpaceX, Amazon, Trader Joe’s
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The federal labor board’s general counsel said “deep-pocket, low-road employers” were trying to challenge the agency’s constitutionality.
The general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board took a swipe at SpaceX, Trader Joe’s and Amazon on Friday for challenging her agency’s constitutionality.
Jennifer Abruzzo, a progressive appointee of President Joe Biden, described such companies as “deep-pocket, low-road employers” that were trying to throw the agency off its mission of protecting workers’ rights “because they have the money to do so.”
“It seems to me they would rather spend their money initiating court litigation rather than improving their workers’ lives and their own workplace operations,” Abruzzo said. “So their primary goal, in my mind, is to divert our scarce resources away from protecting workers’ rights to organize and to fight for recognition and respect for the value that they add to their employers’ operations. And that is not going to happen.”
She added that the employers were trying to “divert attention away from the fact that they are lawbreakers who need to be held accountable in a timely manner.”
Abruzzo’s remarks, delivered as part of a panel put on by the Roosevelt Institute think tank, appear to be her first public comments regarding the legal effort to undermine her agency, long a punching bag for Republican lawmakers and anti-union forces.
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