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This case stemmed from contract negotiations in 2017 between Glacier Northwest and the local Teamsters union, representing the drivers.

For close to a century now, union officials have been using the ample special privileges afforded to them under the 1935 National Labor Relations Act, and the subsequent court decisions expansively interpreting the NLRA, as a ratchet to get America's federal judiciary to grant them new exemptions from the rule of law. Time and again, union lawyers have persuaded judges that the “aims” of the NLRA will be “undercut” unless their clients are allowed to get away with actions that ordinary citizens could not.

Marjorie Cohn goes over a case involving a 2017 Teamsters strike against a concrete company in Seattle that is now before the High Court's pro-corporate super majority.  By Marjorie Cohn Truthout The right to strike is on trial in the Supreme Court. At stake is a 64-year-old precedent t

The court will likely rule in “Glacier Northwest” that the union’s strike activity isn’t protected by federal labor law.

The case could hurt unions by making it easier for companies to sue over harms caused by strikes.