Who is #SCOTUS working for?
US Supreme Court hands defeat to organized labor in truckers strike case https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-rules-against-union-fight-over-strike-that-damaged-property-2023-06-01/
Folks need to read this case directly because there is a lot of nonsense going around about it today.
The Supreme Court didn’t particularly hand a defeat to organize labor; it merely said that a strike is not an excuse to vandalize others’ property.
If organized labor is directly connected to vandalism, well, I don’t think that is a winning position for them to take.
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The article says that the drivers / operators left the concrete trucks rotating, to keep the concrete from hardening.
I guess the court is saying that the drivers should have unloaded the trucks first? (Is that practical?)
As the article says, this ruling will cause confusion. Could food workers be liable if food in a refrigerator expires while they are on strike? Mechanics if a machine breaks, and someone is injured, while they are on strike?
Yes, and you can’t believe a lot of articles :) There’s SO MUCH misreporting on things like Supreme Court cases.
Below I’ll give you the link to the opinion for you to read for yourself, so you don’t have to rely on trusting such outlets.
And then stop trusting such outlets :)
Importantly, the Court did NOT rule on the end result here. It ONLY ruled on the question before it, whether the case could even be brought.
The article is at odds with what the Court actually said.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-1449_d9eh.pdf
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