Supreme Court & GOP limiting Labors' Options

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the lone vote against Glacier Northwest v. Teamsters. Though the Court left in place—for now—the right to strike. However, Justice Amy Coney Garrett made it easier to sue unions/employees for striking if “certain instance of property damages occur.” At what point does a company use lost profits or reputation as property damages? Corporations have shown they will stop at nothing to destroy unions and workers’ rights. They have shown they will stop at nothing to be the wealthiest. The fact that workers can still strike is good news for the hundreds of journalists in eight states who are striking against Gannett, the largest newspaper chain in the U.S.—Arizona Republic, the Austin American-Statesman, the Bergen Record, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, and the Palm Beach Post. Workers claim the cost-cutting measurers by the company, which were the elimination of journalist jobs, and closing of newsrooms, which the union members are saying the leadership at the top are creating hardship for the journalists. The two-day strike plus a day of rest, is coordinated by NewsGuild-CWA and planned for the two days of Gannett’s annual shareholder meeting. If it’s not the Supreme Court nibbling away at workers’ rights, it’s the GOP. It is time for all working people to support each other and the 99 percent in other unions and the rest of the population. In our population we have the Haves, the Have Nots, Have Little and the Used to Haves. It is the Used to Haves who appear to be the most bitter for having lost everything and their way of life. This anger is what the GOP is targeting and the unions and Democrats are missing. The GOP is using this anger to split the rest of 99 percent. Nixon did this with the Hard Hat Riots of 1970, which is still causing hard feelings between labor and Democrats to this day. Nixon’s GOP instigated a riot between New York college students protesting the Kent State murder by the National Guard of four protesting college students, and Nixon authorizing an invasion of a neutral Cambodia. Nixon’s henchmen convinced hundreds of construction workers wearing hard hats to counter protest a thousand college students, beating them unmercifully. Some construction workers carried U.S. flags and chanted "USA, All the way", and "America, love it or leave it,” according to David Paul Kuhn’s book, The Hardhat Riot. Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration, Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center, wrote, “The ‘Hard Hat Riot,’ as it came to be known, ushered in an era of cynical fear-mongering aimed at dividing the nation.” The leaders of today must not let this happen again and take action to guard against a bought and paid for U.S. Supreme Court majority. There is still a window of opportunity for labor unions to organize and raise wages while gaining more union members before further erosion takes place by the Supreme Court. Think this is hyperbole, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa and Ohio already removed the child labor laws put in place to protect child exploitation. The power built by organized workers is playing out on stages large and small across the country and we all must support each other and not allow the GOP to split us on issues unrelated to working. They’ve used guns, abortion, gay rights, history, books, sexuality, ethnicities and who knows what’s next to divide us. We need to focus on our commonalities, our families, our work and improving upon our lives as a whole, bringing each member up as we move up the ladder.