Glacier Northwest, Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters

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🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Our nation has laws, procedures, and courts for settling labor disputes. But what if you're a concrete company and you don't wannnnnnnnnnnnnna go through the system that Congress authorized specifically for this purpose? Then you take it to state court baybeeee - and see if SCOTUS will let you sneak out of the National Labor Relations Board process.

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0:00.0	We'll hear argument this morning in case 211449, Glacier Northwest versus International
0:06.3	Brotherhood of Teamsters.
0:07.6	Hey everyone, this is Leon from fiasco and prologue projects. On this episode of 5 to 4,
0:17.0	Peter, Rianen, and Michael are talking about Glacier Northwest v. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters. In this case a
0:24.8	concrete company argued that they should be compensated for losses incurred
0:28.6	when their Teamster drivers went on strike. A good chunk of the oral
0:32.4	arguments in the case centered on whether or not
0:34.5	concrete is like milk. Is what the teamsters did like walking away from a bunch of
0:39.2	milk and letting it spoil? Or was it more like dumping the milk down a drain?
0:44.0	Your bottom line is the concrete is a perishable.
0:46.7	It equals the milk for the purpose of your argument.
0:49.6	As it turned out, the case was not really about milk or concrete for that matter. It was about
0:54.5	whether a business should be allowed to do an end run around our nation's labor laws.
0:58.1	This is 5 to 4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks.
1:05.8	Welcome to five to four, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have left us draped in darkness,
1:12.3	like daylight savings time during the winter. I'm Peter. I can see your face
1:16.2	for you. It's standard time actually. The daylight savings is during the summer.
1:20.2	Oh, this is exactly like I'm sorry you haven't introduced me yet but there is a person on our
1:24.1	Patreon who says because I put E-S-T Eastern Standard time whatever the fuck and they're always like
1:30.0	it's Eastern Daylight DT or whatever.
1:33.6	Shut the fuck up.
1:35.1	Peter, go ahead.
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