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Chris Kang: Glacial Northwest's contract with the @Teamsters expired. The contract had a no-strike clause but the contract expired, & the company was put on notice of a strike.
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Chris Kang: The workers who were on jobs brought the cement trucks back & left them running so they didn't damage the equipment. The company didn't know what to do--no one knows how to run, drive, or empty them. They lost a day's worth of concrete.
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Chris Kang: That's what strikes do--show the value of employees. The company decided to sue the union, & now the case is being heard by the Supreme Court.
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Chris Kang: Glacial Northwest is arguing the employees were malicious & tried to cause damage when in fact the opposite was true. The workers probably care more about their trucks than the company does. The point of the lawsuit is to cripple the union.
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Chris Kang: We have a law in place that says the NLRB should make this decision. They have the expertise. It used to be that the Supreme Court used to defer to other agencies that had more knowledge & experience but no longer.
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Chris Kang: Our gov't was set up so that if one branch of gov't got too strong or out of control, one of the other branches would step in. Now the Supreme Court decides everything.
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Chris Kang: Even with all the anti-worker rulings the Court is laying down, 2022 still had the most successful unionizing campaigns. Maybe there's a way unions can find a way.
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Chris Kang: We need to push & make sure the Supreme Court understands their credibility is on the line. The American people have caught on to them, especially after the Roe v Wade decision was overturned this summer.
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Chris Kang: This Court really is an obstacle to working people, & we need to voice that the same way we saw people voice their opposition to the court last summer.
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Chris Kang: Sometimes I think Pres. Biden's work on the courts isn't getting enough notice. (con't)
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Chris Kang: (con't) Before we knew who the Dem nominee would be, we said that the next Dem president needs to appoint judges w/ different backgrounds, & this is starting to build a little balance in the lower courts. We need to do this in SCOTUS as well
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Rick: These are young justices & will potentially be around for a very long day.
Chris Kang: Start with the premise that the Supreme Court is broken. One way we can fix it is by expanding the Court. (con't)
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Chris Kang: (con't) Nine justices isn't written in the Constitution; the number of justices has been changed 7x before. Even unions like @SEIU support expanding the Supreme Court. Adding four justices would make the Court more balanced.
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Chris Kang: It would be a 5-4 Democratic Supreme Court if Pres. Obama hadn't been prevented from appointing a justice & if Amy Coney Barrett hadn't been rammed through the courts.
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Chris Kang: The filibuster is standing in the way & we need to do something about it with respect to voting rights & access to abortion. The Repubs are using it to rule as a minority. How many times are they going to attack healthcare?
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