[Crsd] Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Big Business: Limits Workers� R ights to Trials

[Monty Kroopkin]

Fellow Workers, Friends, https://therealnews.com/stories/supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-big-business-limits-workers-rights-to-trials Here is a transcript of the television news report from The Real News Network (TRNN). What the interview does NOT address is what the IWW has always emphasized. That is, relying on the courts (including when trying to enforce union contracts in the courts) gives workers the disadvantage at the get go, because the courts BELONG to the Bosses. The courts do historically reflect some compromises between the working class and the Bosses chiefly because, at times, the labor movement has been strong enough to convince enough of the Bosses that some compromise is in the Bosses own interests. That is why the National Labor Relations Act starts with language about the importance of reducing the general amount of open class conflict and achieving as much "labor peace" as possible. When the labor movement is weak then the courts help the Bosses to role back the legal gains workers and unions have achieved. "Labor peace" will never bring the social revolution and end the dictatorship of capital. The IWW has always seen that direct action (strikes, boycotts, slow downs, and other immediate forms of exerting our class power, including of course general strikes that redirect production under workers control, and expropriating the expropriators) is the best view of how to organize and what to organize for. Monty Kroopkin,IWW Local 13 branch secretary(aka, IWW San Diego General Membership Branch)  p.s. -- The little booklet written by two attorneys with close ties to IWW is a good antidote to all things Supreme Court. It is Labor Law for the Rank and Filer. See online athttps://libcom.org/library/labor-law-rank-filer-building-solidarity-while-staying-clear-la w 
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