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From: "Bradford DeLong" <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu>
>This was in the context of overriding a lower court to issue an injunction
>against the Work Safe slowdown, but if they are enjoining a Work Safe
>slowdown, they sure as hell will issue a contempt decree to enforce it.
-So the trial judge refused to issue an injunction against the "Work -Safe" slowdown, and the 7th Circuit overrode?
Yes. And on the law, they were probably right-- the problem is the law itself. When the Taft-Hartley Act was passed, it was called the Slave Labor Act for good reason. Injunctions are the historical antichrist of the labor movement-- they use courts to force people to stay at work, to work quickly without slowdowns, to basically deny them any power to contest management power in any way.
-- Nathan