{"id":1944146,"date":"2023-06-05T07:21:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T11:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/experts-debate-how-much-us-supreme-court-ruling-chills-labor-strikes\/"},"modified":"2023-06-05T07:25:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T11:25:32","slug":"experts-debate-how-much-us-supreme-court-ruling-chills-labor-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/experts-debate-how-much-us-supreme-court-ruling-chills-labor-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Debate among experts on how much US Supreme Court ruling affects labor strikes."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexperts-debate-how-much-us-supreme-court-ruling-chills-labor-strikes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1944146&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Supreme Court Ruling Undercuts Organized Labor<\/h2>\n<p>By John Kruzel<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Supreme Court has delivered the latest in a series of rulings undercutting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/labor-nominee-dismisses-job-losses-from-bidens-economic-plan\/\" title=\"Labor Nominee Dismisses Job Losses from Biden\u2019s Economic Plan\">organized labor<\/a>, with some legal experts predicting that the decision will make unions that engage in strikes more vulnerable to lawsuits while others see a more modest impact.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>An 8-1 ruling on Thursday authored by conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett made it easier for companies to sue over strikes that cause certain instances of property damage. The case involved a strike by the union representing truck drivers at a concrete business owned by Japan-based Taiheiyo Cement Corp in Washington state.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Some experts viewed the ruling as consistent with the conservative-majority court\u2019s history in recent years of restricting union and employee rights.<\/p>\n<h3>Experts Weigh In<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Angela Cornell, a Cornell Law School labor law professor, called it \u201canother decision that undermines the capacity of unions to function.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Indiana University Maurer School of Law labor and employment law professor Kenneth Dau-Schmidt, who also joined a brief backing the union, added, \u201cThe decision is part of a systematic project by the Supreme Court to limit employee collective rights in the name of industrial peace while expanding employer weapons of lockouts and permanent replacements in the name of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-sen-tester-canceling-keystone-pipeline-was-a-mistake\/\" title=\"Democrat Sen. Tester: Canceling Keystone pipeline was a mistake\">private property rights<\/a> and free enterprise.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>According to Harvard Law School professor of labor and industry Benjamin Sachs, if lower courts faithfully apply the reasoning detailed in Barrett\u2019s decision then it \u201cwon\u2019t do much damage to the right to strike.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The court ruled in favor of Glacier Northwest Inc, which sued a local affiliate of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters after a work stoppage forced the company to discard undelivered concrete. The justices ruled that the company\u2019s claims were not preempted by a statute called the National Labor Relations Act on the grounds that the union had failed to take \u201creasonable precautions\u201d to prevent a foreseeable and imminent harm to the employer\u2019s property resulting from the strike.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling comes at a time of increasing strikes called by U.S. labor unions. According to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data, the number of American workers who participated in strikes and similar activities in 2022 increased by nearly 50% compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Some experts pointed out that the ruling largely preserved the existing legal scaffolding for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/experts-debate-how-much-us-supreme-court-ruling-chills-labor-strikes\/\" title=\"Debate among experts on how much US Supreme Court ruling affects labor strikes.\">deciding labor law preemption cases<\/a> of this kind.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court, with its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberal-supreme-court-justice-warns-on-court-packing-will-diminish-confidence-in-court-rule-of-law\/\" title=\"Liberal Supreme Court Justice Warns On Court Packing: Will \u2018Diminish\u2019 Confidence In Court, Rule Of Law\">6-3 conservative majority<\/a>, has dealt setbacks to organized labor in key cases in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Brudney said Thursday\u2019s ruling \u201cwas not comparable to that broader trendline\u201d of decisions weakening labor unions.<\/p>\n<p>West Virginia University College of Law professor Anne Marie Lofaso said, \u201cThe case fits into the judicial trend to weaken labor unions by weakening what counts as protected concerted activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by John Kruzel in Washington; Editing by Will Dunham)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Justice Neil Gorsuch has dealt a blow to organized labor, potentially making unions that go on strike more susceptible to legal action. However, some experts believe the impact may be limited. The decision is the latest in a string of rulings that have weakened the power of unions in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1944147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[4733,3896,4521,4832,5782,7283,4730],"class_list":["post-1944146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oann","tag-court","tag-debate","tag-experts","tag-labor","tag-ruling","tag-strikes","tag-supreme"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1944146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1944147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1944146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1944146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1944146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}