Labor Rights And SCOTUS Wrongs
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🗓️ 2 June 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In a blow to unions and organized labor, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a concrete company seeking to sue the Teamsters union for the profit they lost during one of its strikes. Advocates say the decision could prevent workers from exercising their right to strike nationwide.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday June 2nd. I'm Trayville Anderson. |
| 0:08.8 | And I'm Priyanka Eribindi and this is what a day where we want to publicly condemn |
| 0:13.2 | the sandbag that tripped Joe Biden yesterday at the Air Force Academy graduation. |
| 0:18.1 | What's up with that? Shame on you sandbag. They gave you a platform and you blew it. |
| 0:23.0 | Yeah, get a job. Stay away from him. |
| 0:26.4 | No more of this. |
| 0:31.1 | On today's show, two more members of the far right militia group, the Oath Keepers, |
| 0:35.2 | have been sentenced to prison. Plus, Carrie Lake has dropped a new single. |
| 0:39.6 | But first, we got our first Supreme Court opinion of the season yesterday and it is not looking |
| 0:45.8 | great, people. In a bloated unions and organized labor, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a |
| 0:51.2 | concrete company in Washington state that has been trying to pursue a lawsuit against the |
| 0:56.0 | Teamsters Union. The court ruled that federal labor laws don't protect the union from potential |
| 1:01.5 | liability for damages that result from strikes. And that state courts can decide who is liable. |
| 1:08.0 | So obviously, this impacts the Teamsters Union in this specific case, but the implications of |
| 1:12.8 | this decision really extend to any union. Yeah, and we've been seeing a lot more unionizing, |
| 1:20.5 | all over the place over the last couple of years. So this is definitely interesting here. Can |
| 1:25.0 | you give us some background on this case? And why exactly? It's so important. Definitely. So this |
| 1:31.6 | issue in question started back in 2017 during contract negotiations with the concrete company in |
| 1:37.3 | question, Glacier Northwest Inc. The union, Teamsters Local 174, which represents truck drivers and |
| 1:43.9 | factory workers called for a strike and for drivers to walk off the job, which they did while |
| 1:49.1 | wet concrete was still in their trucks, though they did keep the mixing drums rotating so that it |
| 1:54.0 | wouldn't immediately harden. Glacier decided then to remove the concrete from the trucks and then |
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