Minneapolis educators say they have officially filed an intent to strike.
The Minneapolis Federation of Educators earlier this week voted to authorize a strike after nearly seven months of talks with the district. The union said that 92% of educators cast a ballot, and 92% of those who voted approved of a strike.
According to Minneapolis Public Schools, the strike could begin as soon as Nov. 11 if agreements cannot be reached within the 10-day cooling period.
Some of the top issues educators are fighting for include limited class sizes, better pay and more support for students and staff. Educators want to make Minneapolis a “destination district,” instead of losing teachers and families other districts in the Twin Cities.
“MPS is committed to reaching an agreement with MFE that is student-centered, fair, competitive and promotes financial stability for the district,” the district said in a statement.
Educators with Minneapolis Public Schools have voted to authorize a strike after failed discussions with the district on three separate contracts, the union that represents them said on Monday night.
The Minneapolis Federation of Educators said in a news release that 92% of its members who cast a ballot voted to authorize a strike.
“No one wants to strike, but district leaders have left us no choice,” Marcia Howard, president of the teachers’ chapter of the union, said in the release.
Union officials said members are frustrated after nearly seven months of talks with no serious proposals. The union said it’s made 35 proposals across nine public sessions since negotiations started in April, and filed for mediation in August.
The next mediation session is scheduled for Thursday, according to the union.
The two sides have met in mediation seven times, with the latest happening on Oct. 21. They’re negotiating three contracts covering teachers, educational support professionals and adult educators, the union said.
Some of the top issues educators are passionate about include limited class sizes, better pay and more support for students and staff.
The district said in a statement before the strike authorization vote began that the two sides are “aligned on values” and say their proposals have addressed many union priorities.
“MPS is committed to quickly reaching an agreement with MFE that works within available resources and prepares the district to navigate anticipated revenue reductions in the coming years,” the district said.
The union says it must give the school district at least a 10-day notice before any strike begins by filing its intent to strike with Minnesota. Union officials said before the strike vote that it’s “hopeful that MPS will make needed investments such as lower class sizes and more special education staff to avert a strike.”
Union officials are planning to hold a news conference on the results of the vote on Tuesday morning.
The Minneapolis Federation of Educators said it represents “more than 4,300 teachers, educational support professionals, and other related service professionals in Minneapolis Public Schools.”
According to the release, 92% of its members cast a ballot.
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Minneapolis Public School educators will vote on whether to authorize a strike starting Thursday, after another failed round of discussions with the district.
The Union that represents educators say members are frustrated after months of talks with no serious proposals. On Tuesday, the two sides participated in a 15-hour mediation session with no progress.
Some of the top issues educators are passionate about include smaller class sizes, better pay and more support for students and staff.
WCCO reached out to Minneapolis Public Schools Thursday for an interview and were told no one was available to speak with us.
MPS said in a statement online they are committed to quickly reaching an agreement with MFE and say their proposals have addressed many union priorities including class size, caseloads and increased pay for adult educators.
The district wrote they want to reach an agreement that “works within available resources and prepares the district to navigate anticipated revenue reductions in the coming years. The school board has been closely involved and has already authorized resources above what had been originally allocated, with a focus on our top shared priority of class size.”
The Minneapolis Federation of Teachers represents more than 4 thousand educators. Union leaders are urging members to vote yes and authorize a strike. On Thursday Marcia Howard, president of the MFE teacher’s chapter said nearly half of their members had already turned in a ballot.
“I believe that our members are the fist inside the glove and that’s the power that we have in negotiations for the best contract that we can get, for the best schools that we can make,” Howard said.
MFE says their top priorities are limited class sizes and better wages for adult educators and support professionals.
“All of us are worthy of a living wage and I don’t think that its too much to ask that we sit together and look at the budget and determine how we can use the money that we have to come up with a solution,” Howard said, adding she’s disappointed in the response from MPS so far.
Howard says their contract expired over the summer and they’ve been meeting with the district for months. She said Thursday the two sides are ‘so far apart right now’.
The next mediation session is scheduled for October 30th. Howard believes there’s still time to come to an agreement.
If this strike is authorized, MFE would need to notify the district of their intent to strike ten days in advance.
The school district is already encouraging families to prepare for the potential impacts of a strike.
“We encourage families to start planning now on how they will manage child care and other family logistics if a strike happens,” the district wrote online. “In the event that a strike happens, MPS will attempt to provide limited child supervision for students in grades PK-5 at a few school locations.”
Thousands of teachers in Portland, Oregon, went on strike Wednesday amid stalled labor negotiations, shuttering schools. The teachers are demanding smaller class sizes and higher pay.
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Teachers in Fresno, California, have authorized a strike, and to fill the temporary vacancies, the school district is sending out a state-wide call for substitute teachers with a lucrative offer– $500 per day to cross the picket line. That’s more than the average daily pay for a full-time teacher in Fresno Unified School District and more than double the normal daily rate for substitute teachers.
If someone accepts a job in the classroom while the teachers are on strike, it will be regarded as crossing the picket line, according to Fresno Teachers Association President Manuel Bonilla. Guest teachers are not a part of the association, and if they teach during the strike they won’t be blacklisted, but Bonilla said it will undoubtedly damage personal relationships with teachers fighting for a fair contract.
“It’s hard to see one group of people fighting and advocating for positive change and another person that is getting in the way of that progress,” said Bonilla.
The union has been negotiating with the school district for a new contract, but both sides have yet to come to an agreement about class size, special education caseloads, health care policies and salary. Similar to the striking United Auto Workers, the Fresno Teachers Association said members want the salary increases in line with inflation and the cost of living index. Chief Communications Officer for Fresno Unified School District Nikki Henry referred to that request as a “straw man argument.”
Henry says more than 95% of the district’s substitute teachers have agreed to continue teaching during the strike. But even with many willing to overlook the strike for a higher wage – substitutes in the district typically make $200 a day – the substitute teacher shortage plaguing schools nationwide leads Borillo to believe the district won’t be able to adequately fill the spots left temporarily open by striking teachers in California’s third-largest school district.
Substitute teachers will see higher pay for work done while teachers are on strike.
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“We hear of the number of vacancies that take place on any given day. And so we do not believe that they have the ability to fill those spaces, and definitely not to fill them with qualified folks,” said Borillo.
The district has more than 2,100 credentialed substitute teachers who previously agreed to continue working even in the case of a strike, Henry said. She said outreach about the higher pay has been successful, and about 200 additional substitute teachers joined the district this past weekend.
“At this point, we have more than enough folks to make sure that our kids are taken care of and the learning continues,” Henry said.
Josiah Mariano, who began substitute teaching in Fresno Unified School District last spring, plans to continue to do so during the strike. He told CBS News his friends who are full-time teachers in the district already expected he would keep teaching, and he might even cover their classes. Mariano said while he received very few details about the strike and contract negotiations, the district sent several messages highlighting the $500 daily pay if substitute teachers committed to teach during the strike.
“That’s awesome to get paid that, but I can’t imagine that we’ll be able to sustain that for super long,” said Mariano. “That’s kind of nuts, you know, for a daily rate.”
The school district explained the incentive funding comes directly from wages withheld from teachers on strike. Henry said that means they’re able to continue the additional pay as long as the teachers are striking.
Teachers in Fresno, California.
Courtesy: California Teachers Association
“Our average teacher makes about $490 a day, so we’re just diverting those funds over to the substitute teacher that would be in the classroom that day,” said Henry. “It’s not a big additional cost to the district.”
Executive Director of the National Education Association Kim Anderson said Fresno is the first district she has seen offer this for substitute teachers filling in for striking teachers. She hopes it doesn’t become a common practice.
“This move to pay substitutes, frankly, even more than the daily rate of a teacher sends a horrible message to what we think about the profession of teaching, and all the educators who provide support services to students,” said Anderson. “Instead of looking to our band-aid solutions, we need everybody to recognize that students need high quality, well trained, committed and well compensated professionals every day of the year.”
While the amount being offered by Fresno Unified School District is unprecedented, other school districts have opted to provide substitute teachers with bonus pay if they cross the picket line of a striking teachers union in the past. In 2017, Fresno Unified School District presented the same $500 proposal for substitute teachers in the case of a strike. It was never implemented as a contract agreement was reached before a walkout took place, but the idea laid the groundwork for the strategy being used now.
“It was very successful in recruiting the substitutes that we needed,” said Henry about the 2017 offer. “Based on that success, we wanted to be prepared this time around.”
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The Oakland Unified School District and striking teachers have reached an agreement on four “common good” provisions that had been sticking points during the walkout that is now in its second week.
“We are still on strike, but momentum is on our side,” the Oakland Education Association said on Twitter Saturday night.
The union representing 3,000 educators, counselors and other workers has maintained the district has failed to bargain in good faith on a new three-year contract that also makes more traditional demands like higher salaries. The striking workers want their contract to also include provisions that address racial equity, homelessness and environmental justice for students.
On Saturday night, four of those demands had been agreed upon, relating to: housing and transportation, the community schools grant, the Black thriving community schools initiative, and school closures, the Bay Area News Group reported.
It was not immediately clear Sunday morning how close the two sides were on reaching a deal on the demands still left on the table, particularly related to increased compensation.
Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell said in a message to parents last week that the district, the state’s 11th largest, is offering raises of as much as 22% for some teachers.
Teachers have maintained that adding support beyond the classroom would improve learning conditions and retain educators. Other common-good demands include providing more mental health support, fixing deteriorating schools, and offering subsidized transportation for low-income students.
The strike comes at the end of the school year, which wraps up May 25. But the district’s 80 schools have remained open to the district’s 34,000 students, with meals being offered and office staff educating and supervising. Only about 1,200 students have shown up to school since the strike started May 4, district spokesperson John Sasaki said last week.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — Thousands of professors, part-time lecturers and graduate student workers at New Jersey’s flagship university went on strike Monday — the first such job action in the school’s 257-year history.
Classes were still being held at Rutgers as picket lines were set up at the school’s campuses in New Brunswick/Piscataway, Newark and Camden, though students said some had been canceled due to the strike. Union officials decided Sunday night to go on strike, citing a stalemate in contract talks that have been ongoing since July. Faculty members voted overwhelmingly in favor of authorizing a strike last month.
Three unions, which represent about 9,000 Rutgers staff members, were involved in the strike: the Rutgers AAUP-AFT, which represents full-time faculty, graduate workers, postdoctoral associates and some counselors; the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union, which represents part-time lecturers; and the AAUP-BHSNJ, which includes faculty in the biomedical and health sciences at Rutgers’ medical, dental, nursing and public health schools.
Strikers march in front of Rutgers’ buildings in New Brunswick, N.J., Monday, April 10, 2023. Thousands of professors, part-time lecturers and graduate student workers at New Jersey’s flagship university have gone on strike — the first such job action in the school’s 257-year history. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Union leaders said faculty members at the medical and other health sciences schools would continue performing essential research and patient care, but would curtail duties that don’t impact patient health and safety.
Officials also said negotiations would continue Monday. The two sides were scheduled to meet at Democratic Gov. Gov. Phil Murphy’s office at the Statehouse around noon.
Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway said Sunday that he believed the two sides were close to an agreement. Union officials, though, said an agreement didn’t appear near.
“To say that this is deeply disappointing would be an understatement,” Holloway said.
Union leaders say they are demanding salary increases, better job security for adjunct faculty and guaranteed funding for graduate students, among other requests.
Holloway has said the university has offered to increase salaries for full-time faculty members, teaching assistants and graduate assistants by 12% by 2025. The university offered an additional 3% lump-sum payment to all the faculty unions that would be paid over the first two years of the new contract.
Two Los Angeles Unified School District unions, comprised of about 65,000 workers, are prepared to strike next week amid negotiations for better pay and wider access to health care, among other demands.
The school district, with about 565,000 students, is the second largest in the U.S., following closely behind by New York City, with roughly 600,000 students, the district’s website says. The looming strike would mean that the more than 1,000 schools in the district would close Tuesday through Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The district and the union have been negotiating over a slew of improvements for workers since April 2022, including seeking 30% raises, an increase in full-time work hours, the right to file complaints about harassment or mistreatment, and additional staffing, Service Employees International Union Local 99 said in a contract summary laying out their demands.
This strike would be the first since 2019, when workers went on strike for six days after 20 months of negotiations. Schools remained open at that time, but it was the first strike in more than three decades, earning the backing of many Democrats inside and outside of the city.
The union organized the strike after 96% of the workers approved it, the SEIU said in a Wednesday press release.
“I’m ready to strike for the respect we deserve,” Janette Verbera, an LAUSD special education assistant, said in the press release. “I am a single mother and for the past 20 years, I have worked two and sometimes three jobs just to support my family. I’m exhausted and not just because I’m physically tired, it is debilitating to do a job day-in-and-day-out that I passionately love and be at a salary below the poverty wage level. How do we properly service our students when we are being overworked and underpaid and disrespected?”
United Teachers Los Angeles, another union in the district, is also planning to strike in solidarity with SEIU, bringing the total number of striking workers to about 65,000.
“We won’t let anyone tell us that the historic level of resources can’t be used to make our lives better, our students’ lives better, and our communities stronger,” UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz said in a Wednesday press release. “In a school district where 86% of students live in poverty and staff salaries aren’t nearly enough to pay rent or sometimes even put food on the table, we are proud to stand alongside the members of SEIU Local 99 as we demand an end to the hoarding of resources and call on LAUSD to make the investments today necessary to secure our success tomorrow.”
“I want to personally apologize to our families and our students,” LAUSD Supt. Alberto Carvalho tweeted on Wednesday. “You deserve better. Know that we are doing everything possible to avoid a strike.”
LAUSD declined to provide additional comment. UTLA and SEIU also declined to provide HuffPost with additional comment.
Tens of thousands of workers in the Los Angeles Unified School District are set to strike for three days next week over stalled contract talks, and teachers will join them, likely shutting down the nation’s second-largest school system, union leaders announced Wednesday.
Unless a deal is reached, the strike was set to begin Tuesday, March 21. It was announced at a rally by the Service Employees International Union, which represents about 30,000 teachers’ aides, bus drivers, custodians, cafeteria workers and other support staff.
United Teachers Los Angeles, the union representing 35,000 teachers, counselors and other staff, expressed solidarity.
A rally held in Grand Park on March 15, 2023, in Los Angeles, California by United Teachers of Los Angeles and SEIU 99 members.
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“Educators will be joining our union siblings on the picket lines,” a UTLA tweet said.
Teachers waged a six-day strike in 2019 over pay and contract issues but schools remained open.
This time, schools would likely close and there wouldn’t be any access to virtual learning, Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho said in an email to parents on Monday.
“We would simply have no way of ensuring a safe and secure environment where teaching can take place,” Carvalho said.
Carvalho also accused the union of refusing to negotiate.
“Let’s go to the table,” Carvalho said in a news conference Wednesday. “Let’s stay at the table. Whatever time, whatever place, until such time as a solution is reached.”
The district has more than 500,000 students. It serves Los Angeles and all or part of 25 other cities and unincorporated county areas.
SEIU members have been working without a contract since June 2020 and the contract for teachers expired in June 2022. The unions decided last week to stop accepting extensions to their contracts.
The SEIU says district support staffers earn, on average, about $25,000 per year and many live in poverty while struggling with inflation and the high cost of housing in LA County.
SEUI is seeking a 30% wage raise for its workers across the board, according to CBS Los Angeles, while LAUSD says it has offered a 10% raise up front, along with another 9% that would be provided over time.
“Despite LAUSD having one of the largest school budgets and largest reserves in the nation, teachers and essential school workers are struggling to support their own families and live in the communities they work for,” UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz said in a statement Wednesday. “To add insult to injury, the district has chosen to violate their legal rights as workers, resulting in an unfair labor practice strike.”
For Sean Miller, a warehouse worker at a food distribution company, being called essential during the pandemic “was one of the most terrifying times of my life.”
“Everybody was scared, whether it was workers or employers,” recalled Miller, who works near Syracuse, New York, for Sysco — a major food distributor for restaurants, schools and nursing homes.
But two years later, when it came time to negotiate a new contract, Miller said the company had forgotten about its “essential” workforce and wasn’t willing to increase pay or curb what the workers called excessive overtime.
“You talk about being essential, a hero, and ‘you guys are the best,’ and when it comes time to shine — nothing,” he said.
So Miller and 230 of his coworkers, members of Teamsters Local 230, went on strike, declaring nearly three weeks later that the company had met their major demands.
Miller is one of thousands of workers who went on strike last year — many for the first time. Newly released figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that large work stoppages increased nearly 50% between 2021 and 2022, continuing a trend of renewed labor activism in the wake of the pandemic.
“It does take courage for any worker to go on strike, so the fact that we’re seeing an increase, compared to what we saw during the pandemic, is a win,” said Margaret Poydock, a policy analyst at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
“Throughout 2022, strikes provided workers critical leverage to bargain over fair pay, safe working conditions, and a fair share of the economy,” the EPI said in a blog post.
More than half of the strikes last year involved health care workers or educators. And while pay was a major reason for strikes, with last year seeing the hottest inflation in 40 years, it wasn’t the only one. Workers also struck for safer working conditions, lower patient-to-nurse ratios and smaller class sizes, Poydock noted.
The Labor Department’s report is far from a complete picture. The report only counts work actions involving over 1,000 people, leaving out most of last year’s strikes. A report released this week from the Cornell Institute of Labor Relations paints a fuller picture, showing nearly a quarter of a million workers went on strike last year, an increase from the year before.
Cornell counted 279 strikes last year, up 50% from the year before — a trend in line with the government’s findings. Nearly half of those were in small workplaces, with fewer than 50 employees. That includes more than 100 strikes and walkouts at Starbucks stores across the country.
The uptick in strikes wave coincides with a surge of public approval for labor unions, which are the most popular they’ve been since 1965, according to Gallup. Still, despite the increase in worker activism last year — including a historic six-week strike among 48,000 University of California workers — strike activity is far below historic levels.
Could be short-lived
“In the ’70s and ’60s we saw a million workers striking each year, so the level today is nowhere near pre-pandemic levels,” Poydock said.
The surge in worker militancy could be short-lived. The Supreme Court appears poised to curtail workers’ right to strike further when in Glacier Northwest v. Teamsters. The court will issue a decision in the case, in which a company is suing concrete workers over a strike that made some concrete unusable, sometime before June.
Many observers believe the conservative-dominated court will rule in favor of the employer, opening the door for businesses to sue workers over any strike that causes economic damage to the company.
London — An estimated half a million workers across multiple sectors in the U.K. went on strike Wednesday in the biggest industrial action Great Britain has seen in more than a decade. The strikers included teachers, civil servants, train and bus drivers, border officials and university staff demanding better pay and working conditions amid soaring inflation and energy prices — difficult circumstances that an IMF forecast suggests may have been exacerbated by Brexit.
“The government have been running down our education (system), underfunding our schools and underpaying the people who work in them,” the National Education Union’s joint general secretary, Kevin Courtney, said, according to The Associated Press.
About 85% of schools across the country were either fully or partially closed due to the strikes on Wednesday, according to BBC News, leaving thousands of parents to either change their own work schedules or seek child care options.
Education workers rally in London during a day of strikes across the U.K., February 1, 2023.
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“Primary schools where you can’t find special needs assistants because they’re taking jobs in supermarkets, where they are paid better — that’s what’s making people take action,” said Courtney.
Wide-scale strikes have been held across the U.K. for months, grinding public services to a halt and disrupting hospital and emergency care, among other things. While nurses and ambulance workers weren’t striking again Wednesday, they do plan to return to picket lines in the coming days.
Inflation in the U.K. has soared over the last year to the highest rates seen in 40 years, and it still stood Wednesday at 10.5%.
On Tuesday, the International Monetary Fund said the U.K. would be the only major economy to contract this year, performing worse even than Russia, which is still under heavy international sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine.
In October, the IMF forecast that Britain could expect modest growth in 2023, along with other European nations emerging from the coronavirus pandemic and adjusting to energy markets largely devoid of Russian fuel. But its new forecast this week sees the British economy shrinking by 0.6%.
The IMF did not link its prediction to the U.K.’s exit from the European Union three years ago, but Britain’s trade has shrunk as a result, and many workers from the EU have left the U.K. since Brexit, causing a labor shortage that other European countries haven’t had to contend with.
Many public sector workers say that their salaries have decreased in real terms over the last decade, and the soaring inflation has pushed them into financial difficulty, with some forced to use food banks.
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has so far taken a hard line against the strikes, insisting that some of the pay increases being demanded by public sector workers are not affordable for the government. Union leaders say the government has refused to offer anything that would be meaningful enough to call off the strikes.
“Our children’s education is precious, and they deserve to be in school today,” Sunak said.
The leader of a national federation of trade unions, Paul Nowak, said the strikes would not stop unless meaningful change was achieved.
“The message to the government is that this is not going to go away. These problems won’t magically disappear,” he said, according to The Associated Press.
Over 200,000 Americans went on strike in 2022, making it the hottest year for work stoppages since 2005. But a case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court this week could make striking, a right enshrined in labor law for nearly a century, much riskier for workers.
The case, Glacier Northwest v. Int’l Brotherhood of Teamsters, centers on construction workers in Washington who went on strike for a week five years ago, which among other things led to the physical destruction of some of the company’s concrete as well as the loss of $100,000 fee from a client. After the strike, the company, CalPortland, sued the union for those losses. A lower court dismissed the case, saying the strike was a matter of federal labor law for the National Labor Relations Board, but the company appealed all the way to the Supreme Court.
Yet a decision from the high court could go beyond looking at whether the CalPortland workers who joined the strike and who were represented by the Teamsters, are liable for the company’s financial losses. If the court rules in favor of Glacier, the ruling would give the green light for employers to sue their employees for striking, potentially chilling workers’ willingness to challenge management on pay, safety and many other issues.
“It’s like allowing employers to put a tax on the right to strike,” Sharon Block, executive director of the Labor & Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, told CBS MoneyWatch.
“Right now, the general rule is that an employer cannot sue for damages for the result of a strike, except in limited circumstances,” said Dan Altchek, a management-side labor lawyer at Saul Ewing.
Those limited circumstances include deliberate property destruction and violence. For instance, taking over a company facility and vandalizing it is against the law, as the Supreme Court ruled in 1939 after a group of Chicago metalworkers staged a sit-down at their employer’s factory.
The strike at Glacier Northwest seems like hundreds of others. On Aug. 11, 2017, construction workers frustrated with the pace of their contract negotiations walked off the job. As they stopped work, they returned trucks loaded with concrete to the company’s headquarters. Because concrete hardens as soon as it stops moving, the workers left the trucks’ drums turning. Non-union workers at the company scrambled to empty the drums and save the trucks, which escaped damage. The strike ended a week later.
CalPortland alleges that, far from a standard strike, the workers’ action was “deliberately timed to destroy [the] employer’s property” and that the company should claim damages from the union representing the workers, just as it would be able to in a case of vandalism.
“The intentional destruction of an employer’s property in the course of a labor dispute is not protected,” former U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco told the justices on Tuesday as he argued for CalPortland. “Federal security guards can’t leave their posts in the middle of a terrorist threat … A ferryboat crew can’t drive their boat out into the middle of the river and abandon ship.” The concrete workers should not have been permitted to walk out, either, Francisco claimed.
The problem with this argument is that the term “property damage” could encompass any damage that occurs during a strike. As Harvard’s Block explained, that means Starbucks baristas who stage a walkout could suddenly face the prospect of being sued over milk that goes bad or coffee that goes stale during the stoppage. And supermarkets could sue striking deli workers for cold cuts that expire before the sell-by date.
“You’re saying, ‘You as an employee have to continue an employment duty with me until all of my profits are safe.’ That’s what I see you arguing,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in questioning Francisco.
Staging a strike is a challenging proposition, even without the threat of such lawsuits.
“Already, when you go out on strike, you’re saying, I’m willing to risk not getting paid, to give up my paycheck, to try to get a better deal. But to say, I’ll give up my paycheck and I’m willing to risk a massive payout to these corporations? You could imagine a lot of workers not wanting to take on that risk,” Block told CBS MoneyWatch.
A ruling by the Supreme Court against the union — which is widely expected given the court’s ultra-conservative makeup — will affect all employees, not just those who work in manufacturing or those represented by unions, said Block and other labor experts.
Many workers who don’t belong to a formal union engage in activism on the job: One-third of the work stoppages in 2021 were led by non-union employees, according to research from Cornell University. And, if companies can turn to state courts in cases of “destruction of property,” that means states will not only be interpreting federal labor law, but defining what counts as “property,” Block said.
Property “doesn’t just mean your physical structure — it’s defined by state law,” she explained.
The lawyer for the Teamsters made a similar observation in his argument Tuesday. “Property could be anything,” he told the Supreme Court. “Property could be goodwill. Property could be money. Property could be intangibles.”
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., April 24, 2018 (Newswire.com)
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