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Assembly Bill 288, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last month, gives workers the ability to petition the California Public Employment Relations Board to take up their case in the event the National Labor Relations Board fails to respond.

The NLRB is challenging the law in court, arguing it usurps its authority “by attempting to regulate areas explicitly reserved for federal oversight.”

The National Labor Relations Board has sued California to block a law that empowers a state agency to oversee some private-sector labor disputes and union elections.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 288 into law last month in response to the Trump administration’s hampering of federal regulators

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