The Supreme Court Says No to Union Sabotage
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 2 June 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:30.4 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:36.4 | The Supreme Court rules on whether workers are protected by federal labor law when they intentionally |
| 0:42.2 | strike to sabotage their employers as the Senate passes a resolution to undo President Biden's |
| 0:48.3 | student loan forgiveness. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We are joined |
| 0:53.6 | today by my colleagues, columnists Kim Strassel and Alicia Finley. Welcome and happy Friday to you both. |
| 1:00.4 | With the end of the Supreme Court term nearing legal junkies like yours truly are still waiting and |
| 1:06.0 | watching rulings on racial preferences and college admissions and also the legal challenge |
| 1:11.9 | to President Biden's student debt wipeout. But on Thursday, we got an interesting under the radar case |
| 1:19.6 | glacier Northwest V teamsters and all lay out some of the facts here. This involves a |
| 1:25.9 | labor dispute between glacier Northwest, which is a concrete company in Washington state and |
| 1:31.5 | a set of its drivers represented by the teamsters. And we're at a preliminary stage of this litigation. |
| 1:37.9 | So we only have the allegations that glacier Northwest is making, but they say that the teamsters |
| 1:43.9 | call the workstoppage at a time when they knew that the trucks were full of concrete that some of |
| 1:49.7 | the drivers refused to make deliveries, some of them abandoned their trucks without telling the |
| 1:54.3 | company which threatened to allow the concrete to harden inside the trucks to get some severe damage |
| 2:00.7 | there. And so the company on that basis sued the union. That was thrown out of state court, |
| 2:06.4 | essentially the Washington Supreme Court said that this is a strike. This is protected by |
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