The U.S. National Labor Relations Board, NLRB, is abandoning its legal battle against Elon Musk’s SpaceX two years after issuing a complaint that the firm fired eight engineers over their involvement in an open letter criticizing Musk, Josh Eidelson of Bloomberg reports, citing a letter from the U.S. labor board. “Accordingly, the National Labor Relations Board lacks jurisdiction over the Employer and, therefore, I am dismissing your charge,” Danielle Pierce, a regional director of the agency, wrote in the letter seen by Bloomberg. The labor board cited a recent opinion from the National Mediation Board arguing SpaceX engineers are under its jurisdiction and not the NLRB’s.
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