The Supreme Court ruled for a company that alleges striking workers conspired to damage its property, the latest setback for organized labor at the high court and one that could make unions more liable for economic losses attributable to work stoppages.
was written by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who said that the actions of striking truck drivers at Glacier Northwest concrete company in Washington state were not protected by the National Labor Relations Act, the 1935 statute that governs collective bargaining.
“Workers are not indentured servants, bound to continue laboring until any planned work stoppage would be as painless as possible for their master,” Jackson wrote. “They are employees whose collective and peaceful decision to withhold their labor is protected by the NLRA even if economic injury results.
Eventually, the Washington Supreme Court stopped the lawsuit, agreeing with the union that the NLRA and its authority over union activity took priority over state court claims. In its view, “the NLRA preempts Glacier’s tort claims related to the loss of its concrete product because that loss was incidental to a strike arguably protected by federal law.”
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