California Unions are seeking state -level labor protection

By a Calfatters Capitol reporter Jean Quang:

As businesses like SpaceX and Amazon seek to cancel the National Labor Council, the California Unions are trying to reserve a new tactic to maintain labor rights.

They have introduced a bill that will give the state a new role in the disputes of the Union. Assembly Bill 288 by assemblyMember Tina McKiner He would give the state jurisdiction to the Union election, the accusations of the employer’s revenge and other cases between employers and alliances – if the Federal Council is not responsible or unable to respond.

The Democrat’s proposal in Ingelwood is likely to face business and legal challenges, mainly the question of whether the bill will violate the federal law.

Experts say the Law on National Labor Relations is already regulating the rights to organize the Union and the procedures for unifying most of the private sector workers across the country, state agencies cannot have jurisdiction.

But the California Labor Federation says the state should try to enter as the Federal Agency is increasingly often in cross -haired hair Prominent enterprises claiming in the federal court that the agency is unconstitutional, and the Trump administration.

• Lorena GonzalezPresident of the California Labor Federation: “We must be prepared.”

The bill is formulated to grant the State Board of Employment of Powers to certify the Union election and to decide on complaints of unfair labor practices – including the ability to fine employers – only if the workers have already filed their cases in the National Council of Labor Relations.

During the first weeks of his administration, President Donald Trump fired the Democratic Council Democratic Council, depriving a quorum board and stopping his ability to resolve cases. Although the hearing is still ongoing, all decisions of the administrative law judges who were appealed to the full council were effectively frozen. Wicox has since been restored by order of a judge, confirmed a spokesman for the Council, but the administration has appealed this decision.

The bill will give the state the power to intervene if the Council loses a quorum again.