NLRB Wins Court Order Blocking California’s New Labor Board Law

California’s state labor board can’t assert authority for now over private-sector union disputes that traditionally fall under federal jurisdiction, a court ruled in blocking enforcement of a new state law.

Key parts of the measure (AB 288) are likely preempted by the National Labor Relations Act, the US District Court for the Eastern District of California found Dec. 26 in largely granting an injunction to the federal labor board.

California lawmakers, like their counterparts in New York, enacted a statute to claim broader state jurisdiction in response to a lack of a quorum at the National Labor Relations ...