#supremacy-clause

#supremacy-clause

New York watched the federal government give up on labor relations law and tried to do something about it. Last week, Amazon successfully secured a preliminary injunction blocking New York from enforcing its newly amended State Employment Relations Act. SERA historically covered agricultural and non-employee contractors left unprotected by the NLRA. In September, New York expanded SERA to cover workers traditionally under federal jurisdiction - explicitly citing the Trump administration's decision to leave the NLRB without a quorum.