Amazon's Constitutional Lawsuit Against NLRB Leaves Texas Court [View all]

A federal judge transferred Amazon.com Inc.’s constitutional lawsuit against the National Labor Relations Board related to union bargaining in New York out of a Texas court.

The move robs Amazon of favorable precedent from the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that’s binding on district courts in Texas.

The order sending Amazon’s lawsuit to the US District Court for the District of Columbia is the latest twist in the legal fight over a long-running labor organizing effort at the company’s Staten Island warehouse.

Amazon sued the NLRB in response to an NLRB case over the company’s obligation to negotiate with a union that warehouse workers elected as their bargaining representative in 2022. Like many others against the agency, the lawsuit contends elements of the board’s structure violate the Constitution.

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