Using the courts to undercut union power

[OriginalGumby]

http://socialistworker.org/2009/05/21/using-courts-undercut-union-po Lee Sustar looks at the court order banning an LA teachers' strike last week in the context of the long history of anti-union judges intervening in labor struggles.

[Niccolò Rossi]

I don't think it's entirely right to call these actions anti-union as opposed to anti-worker.

I think an issue of equal value is using the unions to undercut workers power and the long history of unions intervening (and derailing) labour struggles.

[Q]

Please stop the spam, thank you.

[OriginalGumby]

I believe in the context of this article and the struggle of teachers in LA anti-union and anti-worker are interchangeable. We have run articles about current and past situations where unions hold back or actively are hostile to working class struggle. Most recently with nurses in California who were rather militant having their local placed under undemocratic "protectorship" by the SEIU. Now the radicals have started a new union and there is a campaign to decertify SEIU so that a democratic and class struggle based union can be organized.

[pastradamus]

I think this would be more suited to the worker struggles area.