Bush War on Labor: ILWU Injunctions and Links for Action and Legal Background

[Justin Schwartz]

>(d) Dockworkers continue to work-to-rule--as they were doing before the 
>lockout.
>(e) Not all that much cargo is moved--so shippers have a big incentive to 
>settle: they're paying out wages and getting little in return.
>
>What am I missing? It seemed to me that Bush's injunction is actually going 
>an offensive move against the shippers. But I may well be out of my depth 
>here...
>

You are, Brad. Slowdowns are illegal under the injunction; the union faces 
contempt charges, jail time for its leaders, and huge fines if it persists. 
The injunction, like all labor injunctions, favors the bosses because it 
takes away the worker's one great weapon, concerted refusal to work. Read 
Felix Frankfurther's 1927(?) cloassic, The Labor Injuncion, which helped get 
the Norris-LaGuardia Act passed, banning the federal labor injunction until 
Taft-Hartley reinstated it. jks

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