Would our right wing Supreme Court go for this one?

I'm sitting here expecting a very necessary package that Amazon promises to deliver today. I'm as hooked on Amazon as the next person -- maybe more so, being extremely urban and always eager to avoid parking.

Drivers for Amazon or one of its subcontractors line up in Dogpatch for dispatch

But maybe I'll have to learn to do something else. David Firestone reports on the monster company's attempt to overthrow long standing labor law. My emphasis.

In a legal filing on Thursday, the company argued that the National Labor Relations Board, which supervises and enforces labor law, was unconstitutional. It came up with various spurious reasons for this argument — the board violates the Constitution’s separation of powers, its actions violate Amazon’s Fifth Amendment rights, it violates Article III by acting like a court, etc. — but the upshot was that it doesn’t think any federal agency has the right to oversee its relationship with its employees.

And if there’s no agency to enforce labor law, there won’t be much of a labor movement left. Companies would have a much easier time essentially doing whatever they wanted to their employees with little fear of oversight. (Which sometimes happens during Republican administrations, but at least the board is there to protect the most fundamental rights.)

Its filing puts Amazon in the company of Elon Musk, whose SpaceX outfit made a similar argument in a lawsuit last month. But the issue really goes back to the New Deal. Many tycoons were furious when the National Labor Relations Act was passed in 1935, but the Supreme Court clearly upheld the legality of the board in a 1937 case. That doesn’t seem to matter to a new breed of mogul like Musk and Jeff Bezos, who want to return to the Herbert Hoover era.

Amazon is the second largest employer in the state of California, behind only the University of California, with 170,000 workers. 

I'll bet they wish they had a union. UC employees are certainly glad they do.