January 27, 2026
A New York federal judge should not make permanent a temporary block on a new law letting the state act for the National Labor Relations Board because an exception to the federal agency's supremacy over the states casts doubt on the order to grant the temporary injunction, the Amazon Labor Union said.
January 14, 2026
Recent rulings from the Fourth and D.C. circuits strengthen the argument that New York was allowed to expand its labor board's powers in response to corporate and judicial attacks on the National Labor Relations Board, the Teamsters-affiliated Amazon Labor Union told a federal judge.
November 26, 2025
A New York federal judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking a law allowing the Empire State's labor board to adjudicate private sector unionization matters and labor-management disputes, ruling that Amazon is likely to prevail in its challenge of the measure.
November 14, 2025
The state of New York urged a Brooklyn federal judge to reject Amazon's bid to block a law allowing the Empire State's labor board to adjudicate private sector unionization matters and labor-management disputes, a statute that the online retailer says is flatly unconstitutional.
October 23, 2025
A New York federal judge should block the state from letting its labor board perform the National Labor Relations Board's functions when the NLRB cannot, Amazon said, saying a 66-year-old U.S. Supreme Court ruling prevents the state from giving its labor board this power.
October 14, 2025
New York has defended its decision to empower a state labor board to oversee labor-management disputes and union elections when the National Labor Relations Board cannot, urging a New York federal judge to reject Amazon's challenge to the state's expansion of its Public Employment Relations Board's powers.
October 03, 2025
The Amazon Labor Union has asked a New York federal judge to let it defend a New York law empowering state enforcers to fill in for the beleaguered National Labor Relations Board, saying Amazon's bid to nullify the new law imperils an unfair firing charge it filed with the state.
September 22, 2025
Amazon on Monday launched a federal lawsuit challenging an amendment to New York labor law that the ecommerce company says "flips U.S. labor law on its head" by unconstitutionally empowering the state's Public Employment Relations Board to regulate private-sector labor relations already covered by federal law.