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

Bradford DeLong jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu
Wed Oct 9 18:39:18 PDT 2002



>Ummm, what are you missing?
>
>Today I have seen and heard various commentaries saying that once
>shippers are ordered to end lockout and dockworkers go back to work
>under terms of the injunction instead even of a 30-day extension to
>their contract, then if dockworkers just work to rule, they may be
>subject to fines for violations of the National Security / economic
>necessity provisions of Taft-Hartley.

A court is going to hold dockworkers in contempt for working according to the safety procedures established by the company and the terms of their contract?

Seems very unlikely...

Brad DeLong



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