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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Michael Sainato

‘No way’: US labor watchdog refuses to bow to SpaceX, Amazon and Starbucks

Hospitality workers picket outside Hotel Figueroa in downtown LA on 5 April 2024.
Hospitality workers picket outside Hotel Figueroa in downtown LA on 5 April 2024. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images

The US’s top labor lawyer has said her agency will not “succumb” to Amazon, Starbucks and SpaceX’s attempts to legally challenge the National Labor Relations Board and its ability to enforce federal labor law.

Jennifer Abruzzo, the NLRB general counsel, accused some of the US’s largest corporations of “jumping on the bandwagon” in mounting legal challenges to the labor watchdog, which has found itself at the center of the ongoing battle between the companies and a wave of unionizing efforts by workers.

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