Amazon Case at Labor Board Could Topple Multiple Precedents

The National Labor Relations Board’s legal arm urged the board to strike down four separate precedents in a pending case against Amazon.com Inc., including one ruling from the 1940’s and another issued less than a year ago.

The NLRB general counsel’s office targeted the precedents in a March 31 brief challenging parts of an administrative law judge’s decision that dismissed several allegations against Amazon related to the company’s efforts to resist unionization at facilities in New York.

Administrative Law Judge Benjamin Green threw out some of those allegations because they relied on arguments to change board precedent to find ...