Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the lone dissenter in an 8–1 ruling that ruled in favor of a concrete company that sought to revive a lawsuit against one of the largest unions in the United States.
Thursday’s decision, authored by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, allows (pdf) a Washington state-based firm, Glacier Northwest, can go ahead with a lawsuit against the powerful International Brotherhood of Teamsters in a court over a 2017 strike where Teamster drivers walked off the job and allowed cement to go bad in their trucks.
But Jackson issued a dissent that disagreed with Barrett and the majority opinion, writing that the union’s “conduct is at least arguably protected by the NLRA,” the National Labor Relations Act of 1935. “But instead of modestly standing down, the majority eagerly inserts itself into this conflict, proceeding to opine on the propriety of the union’s strike activity based on the facts alleged in the employer’s state-court complaint,” Jackson said….