Earlier this month, Space X filed a lawsuit claiming the structure of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is unconstitutional.
The company has been embroiled in employment-related complaints with the NLRB and other federal agencies. If successful, the suit would immediately throw the NLRB’s authority to police the workplace into chaos and create a thorny political issue in an area that for decades has divided Congress.
The complaint, filed in the southern district of Texas, relies heavily on a case currently pending before the Supreme Court, Jarkesy v. SEC. The plaintiff in that case alleges agency tribunals infringe on the constitutional right to a jury trial in civil cases and [argues that] administrative law judges — as utilized by the NLRB and many other federal agencies — violate the constitution’s separation of powers…
“The NLRB’s current way of…