OA857: Can Elon Musk Blow Up Your Right To Join A Union?
Added 2024-01-17 08:19:35 +0000 UTCAfter a roundup of the first day of the E. Jean Carroll trial, Liz and Andrew break down the latest SpaceX lawsuit and discuss what it might mean for the future of collective bargaining.
This is an unpaid post on Patreon.
Notes
Nathan J. Robinson, researcher, Current Affairs, “Surely We Can Do Better Than Elon Musk,” April 7, 2021 https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/04/surely-we-can-do-better-than-elon-musk
S. Derek Turner, “Broadband Boondoggle: Ajit Pai's $886M Gift to Elon Musk,” Free Press, December 14, 2020 https://www.freepress.net/our-response/expert-analysis/insights-opinions/broadband-boondoggle-ajit-pais-886m-gift-elon-musk
NLRB proceedings against SpaceX
https://www.nlrb.gov/case/31-CA-307446
NLRA, 29 U.S.C. § 151 et seq.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/29/chapter-7/subchapter-II
NLRB damages chart
SpaceX v. NLRB docket
Comments
great point
Opening Arguments
2024-01-23 20:29:09 +0000 UTCPlease, please, please do a reenactment of the interactions between Habba & Kaplan!!!
Christine Ingleton
2024-01-18 14:05:09 +0000 UTCThis leads to a question for a future podcast: at what point is it “venue shopping”? I think we can objectively agree that the Twitter case filed in Texas was more than a stretch and was an example of abusing the system. Most SpaceX employees are in California, but Texas is not a minor location. What if 50% -1 SpaceX employees were in Texas? Is there an objective legal standard to what constitutes venue shopping?
GOP Hold out (Trump is the RINO!)
2024-01-18 11:55:01 +0000 UTC(Not defending Musk) However, Space X has significant operations in southern Texas. Starbase, located in Brownsville, TX, has 1,800 Space X employees and is the primary launch location for Space X. This seems analogous to NASA filing a case in the 11th (Cape Canaveral, FL) instead of the 5th where its Houston HQ is located.
GOP Hold out (Trump is the RINO!)
2024-01-18 11:42:43 +0000 UTCI think it was McKinley, whose death led to the ascension of VP Theodore Roosevelt to the presidency.
Emma Joy Jampole
2024-01-18 05:19:00 +0000 UTCA. I love when y’all trash Elon Musk because of…. Everything you’ve said I am glad for reposting of the expose in the show notes! I agree Andrew was way ahead, this is why he (and Liz) are worth paying for in a way others are not. But people like me (especially women) in California who know workers at his Tesla plant also knew Musk to be an A-hole. But, we were the minority when AT did his impressive analysis. 😎
C’mon
2024-01-18 00:54:00 +0000 UTCAnother weird fact… OH has had more Presidents from their than any other state
Kelli Strong
2024-01-17 20:18:54 +0000 UTCYeah, you're right. It could also have been Garfield. Weird OH presidential trivia today on Opening Arguments.
Bekka Klingbeil
2024-01-17 20:10:02 +0000 UTCI think you were talking about President James Garfield. He was shot by the “lunatic” Charles J. Guiteau (who thought he was going to be ambassador to France). Garfield lingered for weeks after the shooting and died from sepsis. (Two great books about it Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard and Assassination Vacation by FRF rock star Sarah Vowell). Guiteau acted as his own defense and blamed the doctors putting their fingers in the wound. Guiteau famously said “the doctors killed him, I merely shot him”
Kelli Strong
2024-01-17 19:53:34 +0000 UTCThe President you are thinking of is President William McKinley, who was re-elected in 1900. He served only 6 mo of his second term, being shot at a public appearance in Sept 1901. What eventually killed him was gangrene resulting from the failure of doctors to find and remove the second bullet. His assassin was tried and convicted of murder and was executed by electric chair. (Sorry, history geek who is from Ohio, McKinley's home state.)
Bekka Klingbeil
2024-01-17 18:20:43 +0000 UTCThanks guys love this podcast.
Chad McJannett
2024-01-17 13:32:30 +0000 UTC
