For decades, union-busting bosses and Republican politicians have had a powerful ally in their war on organized labor: the United States Supreme Court.
When is a lockout a strike? When corporate media says so. The corporate media will always defer to corporate interests because those are the interests that pay its bill. As a result, labour concerns are usually either downplayed or ignored.
Authors from the Swedish syndicalist union SAC caution against the “romanticization” of strikes and argue workers must re-learn how to build pressure within the workplace.
Union took issue with company’s threats to outsource jobs from the US to Mexico if workers refuse to accept their proposals.
United Steelworkers members claim Allegheny Technologies Incorporated is refusing to provide essential bargaining information.
Employers are alleged to be leveraging coronavirus-induced unemployment to mount an assault on collective bargaining.
The prestige of classical music obscures a range of unseemly realizations: arts managers are union-busting bosses like any other. Case in point: the lockout of Baltimore Symphony Orchestra members.
Unions must either demand a place at the table or be part of the meal
Strikes have become a much weaker tool for unions, while management continues to lock out workers as a way to call the shots at the bargaining table.
Employers use lockouts to weaken unions. Lockouts sabotage the functioning of the union-management relationship, and they undermine standard and secure jobs in favour of more precariousness. Lockouts are also sometimes used to shift production from one plant or country to another, as well as to close unionized plants.
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