SpaceX is suing to bust up federal union protections
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#2Just when you think there's no end to Musk's dip-shittery, he goes and dives head first into a pile of nonsense and butt-hurtedness.
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#3Title is misleading. Has nothing to do with union protections.
Sounds like a strong case. Why should companies be forced to employ people who actively work to harm the reputation of said company?
Re: SpaceX is suing to bust up federal union protections
#4Just when you think there's no end to Musk's dip-shittery, he goes and dives head first into a pile of nonsense and butt-hurtedness.
Unions are cancer. This isn't the late 19th century anymore. Unions do very little but enrich themselves and exert political power.
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#5Title is misleading. Has nothing to do with union protections. Sounds like a strong case. Why should companies be forced to employ people who actively work to harm the reputation of said company?
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Re: SpaceX is suing to bust up federal union protections
#6Title is misleading. Has nothing to do with union protections. Sounds like a strong case. Why should companies be forced to employ people who actively work to harm the reputation of said company?
Some people think it's ok for employers to be mini-dictators. Most people, for example those who need to work for a living, do not.
But however you slice it, is is absolutely one-hundred percent a labor rights issue.
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#7It's not clear to me why the open letter authors are protected under the NRLB at all. They seemed to be criticizing the boss, which is not illegal, but not really a labor action either?
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#8> It claims the NLRB’s proceedings, which involve a hearing in front of an NLRB administrative law judge (ALJ), violate SpaceX’s “constitutional right to trial by jury.” The company also accuses NLRB of violating the Constitution’s rules on the separation of powers, stating the agency’s structure “is miles away from the traditional understanding” of the concept.
This is the same argument going against the FTC, SEC, and several other regulatory agencies. If you get charged of a crime by a public prosecutor, you get the ability to argue the facts in front of a court of law. If you get charged of a crime by a regulatory agency - you don't even get to argue the facts.
I... might kinda side with SpaceX on this one? I am not trying to die on a corporate rights hill, and not that I think SpaceX is innocent of the charges, but it does seem like they should at least be able to argue the factualness of the crime they are being charged with? This does seem like something that should be done by the justice department.
Still, it's almost surely going to get thrown out. They are trying to turn a NLRB infraction into a Constitutional law case in a hail-Mary attempt that it would get escalated to the Supreme Court.
Re: SpaceX is suing to bust up federal union protections
#9Just when you think there's no end to Musk's dip-shittery, he goes and dives head first into a pile of nonsense and butt-hurtedness.
It's not actually clear that Musk was involved in this at all.
By all accounts, he has not really been present at the day-to-day operations of SpaceX in years. And the open letter was targeting the executive team, not Musk.
Re: SpaceX is suing to bust up federal union protections
#10Just when you think there's no end to Musk's dip-shittery, he goes and dives head first into a pile of nonsense and butt-hurtedness.
Unions are cancer. This isn't the late 19th century anymore. Unions do very little but enrich themselves and exert political power.
I'll happily get rid of unions once we also get rid of corporations ruled by wannabe-dictators. Until then, unions are a necessary counterbalancing force to keep executive behavior in check.