‘Dark forces’: how US corporations turned to courts in fight against unions

Companies including Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Starbucks are using new legal playbook against unions, experts say

A multi-pronged legal attack under way by Elon Musk, large corporations, business groups and anti-union litigators threatens to “raise havoc” with US labor law and hobble a resurgent labor movement, according to experts.

So far efforts to scale back or undermine workers’ rights through the US courts have centered on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) – the US top workplace watchdog and overseer of union elections. But other laws – including trademark and property rights statutes – are also being used.

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