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

Justin Schwartz jkschw at hotmail.com
Thu Oct 10 20:00:11 PDT 2002



>From: Bradford DeLong <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re: Bush War on Labor: ILWU Injunctions and Links for Action and
>Legal Backgr...
>Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 18:39:18 -0700
>
>>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?

YUp. I'm home and it's late right now, but I can find you a dozen cases where work to rule was held to be contempt of court as a slowdown. Nathan, you're probably more up on these things than I am. jks

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