The outcome is predictable: the most conservative Supreme Court in decades eroded another legal protection of workers’ right to organize.
In response, the labor movement must re-evaluate the source of our power; the law will not save us.
U.S. labor law contains no penalties for firing workers in retaliation for organizing — only remedies.
to obtain 10(j) injunctions, which are emergency legal measures intended to stop the harm that extreme union-busting actions cause to organizing campaigns, the Supreme Court underestimates the damage that retaliatory firings cause.
The Supreme Court’s action exposes how little relief workers can expect to receive moving forward.
Persons:
McKinney
Organizations:
Starbucks Corp, Supreme Court, National Labor Relations, Court
Locations:
Memphis, U.S