A labor union’s allegedly deliberate destruction of company property as a pressure tactic in a labor dispute is not protected by federal labor law, a concrete company told the Supreme Court on Jan. 10.
Labor activists say that endangering and destroying company property during a labor dispute is fair game that has long been protected by the law, but companies like the petitioner in this case, Glacier Northwest, a ready-mix concrete company headquartered in Seattle, are pushing back.
The justices spent much of the oral argument discussing the difference between economic harm inflicted during strikes, which the law generally does not hold strikers responsible for, versus intentionally destroying property, which is forbidden….