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You make it sound as if the US is a paragon of workers rights. From what I can say it's pretty bad in the land of the free. Nowhere near the civilised world at

You make it sound as if the US is a paragon of workers rights. From what I can say it's pretty bad in the land of the free. Nowhere near the civilised world at least.

vintermann 2y ago
That is not the intention, it obviously isn't. But oddly enough, this is one of the areas there are some real force behind labor law in the US. If a manager or spokesperson at the company ever said something that contradicted what the IKEA spokesperson said, they could quickly be forced to backtrack and issue a statement like what they actually said. Former NLRB employee and lawyer Matt Bruenig loves trolling people with this on social media. If anyone with employment responsibility is blustering against unions in social media, he'll send an NLRB complaint about "threatening retalitation for protected activity". You don't need "standing" to do this, by design. The targets are quickly told by their laywers to back down, because the law really is amazingly strict on this.
- addicted 2y ago
  Ironically the Supreme Court further watered down what regulatory actions the NLRB can take against companies retaliating against unionizing workers just a couple of days ago. US law is actually pretty good as far as worker’s rights are concerned. The problem is that successive U.S. administrations (both Democratic and Republican) have failed to enforce the law. The Biden administration has been a welcome exception in this regard. The other, bigger, problem is that US law is no longer decided in the legislature and is being unilaterally rewritten by the Supreme Court which is quite decidedly anti union and has been rolling back all sorts of protections which are clearly enshrined in law but have been “interpreted” (in quotes because now they don’t even pretend to be interpreting the text differently) out of it by the Supreme Court.

You make it sound as if the US is a paragon of workers rights. From what I can say it's pretty bad in the land of the free. Nowhere near the civilised world at least.

vintermann 2y ago

That is not the intention, it obviously isn't. But oddly enough, this is one of the areas there are some real force behind labor law in the US. If a manager or spokesperson at the company ever said something that contradicted what the IKEA spokesperson said, they could quickly be forced to backtrack and issue a statement like what they actually said. Former NLRB employee and lawyer Matt Bruenig loves trolling people with this on social media. If anyone with employment responsibility is blustering against unions in social media, he'll send an NLRB complaint about "threatening retalitation for protected activity". You don't need "standing" to do this, by design. The targets are quickly told by their laywers to back down, because the law really is amazingly strict on this.

addicted 2y ago
Ironically the Supreme Court further watered down what regulatory actions the NLRB can take against companies retaliating against unionizing workers just a couple of days ago. US law is actually pretty good as far as worker’s rights are concerned. The problem is that successive U.S. administrations (both Democratic and Republican) have failed to enforce the law. The Biden administration has been a welcome exception in this regard. The other, bigger, problem is that US law is no longer decided in the legislature and is being unilaterally rewritten by the Supreme Court which is quite decidedly anti union and has been rolling back all sorts of protections which are clearly enshrined in law but have been “interpreted” (in quotes because now they don’t even pretend to be interpreting the text differently) out of it by the Supreme Court.