The decision united liberal and conservative justices in labour’s latest loss at the U.S. Supreme Court
In a dispute about the pressure that organized labour can exert during a strike, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday against unionized drivers who walked off the job with their trucks full of wet concrete.
“The Union’s actions not only resulted in the destruction of all the concrete Glacier had prepared that day; they also posed a risk of foreseeable, aggravated, and imminent harm to Glacier’s trucks,” Barrett wrote in a decision joined by four other justices. Three more justices agreed with the outcome in the case but did not join Barrett’s opinion.
In her dissent, Jackson wrote: “Workers are not indentured servants, bound to continue labouring until any planned work stoppage would be as painless as possible for their master.” The company sued the union in state court for intentionally damaging its property; the lawsuit was initially dismissed. Lawyers for the union had said that in this case the drivers were instructed to be conscientious when they walked off the job, to bring their full trucks back to Glacier’s facility and to leave the trucks’ mixing drums spinning so that the concrete would not immediately begin to harden.
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