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The USA is extremely hostile to unions, and labor has virtually no ability to negotiate with capital. For example, last Thursday the Supreme Court just ruled t
by droopyEyelids 3y ago
The USA is extremely hostile to unions, and labor has virtually no ability to negotiate with capital.
For example, last Thursday the Supreme Court just ruled that unions can be sued for losses caused by striking https://archive.is/0bYhe https://archive.is/0bYhe
But that is just the last pieces of labor's power getting washed away in the USA. Already things like sympathy strikes, which give labor actual power in Europe, are completely illegal.
- twoodfin 3y ago“Losses caused by striking” is a funny way to describe the holding of the case, which was about cement truck drivers deliberately timing their strike to maximize the risk of damage to the trucks and at a minimum spoil their loads. The decision was 8-1.
- hgsgm 3y agoOr management deliberately times the cement mixing to block the strike. Everyone seems to miss that the Court did not rule on the merits of the case. They rules on a procedural question. They ruled that the suit can go forward because intentional damage was within the realm of possibility. Jackson dissented because she believed that NLRB has priority jurisdiction before other lawsuit venues. No one on HN knows who is "right".
- fnordpiglet 3y agoThe context is : Instead, the employer contended in a lawsuit, “the drivers prompted the creation of the perishable product” and then waited until the concrete was inside the trucks before walking off the job. The bar being set is intentionality in destroying property even through spoilage by setting up a situation to cause the spoilage intentionally. It’s a fairly minor erosion if it is at all.