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

[Nathan Newman]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
Justin Schwartz wrote:
>Slowdowns are illegal under the injunction

-What about work-to-rule? Isn't the definition of slowdown contestable?

It is contestable and if you lose the contest with a judge with an active
injunction, you go to jail.

This is the reason that injunctions are the antichrist in labor circles-- it
moves things from civil suits and NLRB hearings to the preemptive power of
the judge to throw people in jail at will.  It kind of changes the
calculations of everyone involved and the willingness of folks to push the
envelope.

-- Nathan Newman