"Assembly Bill 288, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last month, gives workers the ability to petition the California Public Employment Relations Board to take up their case in the event the National Labor Relations Board fails to respond. The NLRB is challenging the law in court, arguing it usurps its authority "by attempting to regulate areas explicitly reserved for federal oversight.""
"The National Labor Relations Board has sued California to block a law that empowers a state agency to oversee some private-sector labor disputes and union elections. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 288 into law last month in response to the Trump administration's hampering of federal regulators. It gives the state's Public Employment Relations Board the ability to step in and oversee union elections, charges of workplace retaliation and other issues in the event the federal labor board is unable, or declines, to decide cases."
Assembly Bill 288 grants the California Public Employment Relations Board authority to oversee union elections, workplace retaliation charges, and other private-sector labor disputes when the National Labor Relations Board is unable or declines to decide cases. The National Labor Relations Board filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, asserting the state law usurps federal authority by regulating areas reserved for federal oversight. The NLRB's suit mirrors a challenge to a New York law that similarly expands state labor board powers. Lawmakers cited the absence of an NLRB quorum after a presidential firing as justification for the state measure.
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