Omaha Steve's Labor Group
In reply to the discussion: Anyone notice the supremes ruling 8-1 yesterday on companies can sue striking workers. [View all]The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)The company did mitigate the damage. Your statement is false and adds swelling to the black eye.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett said:
She pointed particularly to the fact striking workers abandoned fully loaded trucks of cement without telling anyone, a move that could have destroyed the trucks had they not been unloaded in time by non-striking workers at the company, Glacier Northwest.
Further she wrote:
Because the union took affirmative steps to endanger Glaciers property, rather than reasonable precautions to mitigate the risk, the conduct at issue is arguably not protected by the National Labor Relations Act, Barrett wrote.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/01/politics/labor-strike-supreme-court-cement-company-glacier-teamsters/index.html
We cannot expect the courts to protect us when we act like this. The vote was 8 to 1. This is not and example of right wing stooges. Although there are plenty of other examples.
We need unions and we must clean up our image. It is critical to the future of unions that we stop this kind of action.