1,100 coal miners at Warrior Met Coal in Alabama have been on strike since April 1, and 1,400 Kellogg’s workers at cereal plants in Nebraska, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee have been on strike since Oct. 5. Facing intense financial, physical, and psychological strains from being on strike for so long, violence and hostility from scab workers on the picket line, and threats of being permanently replaced, these workers have held strong. However, they are now facing additional obstacles imposed by business-friendly courts that are stripping their legally protected right to picket. At the Warrior Met picket line in Brookwood, Alabama, as well as the Kellogg’s picket line in Omaha, Nebraska, striking union workers have been slapped with injunctions that restrict who can picket, how close they can stand to company entrances, what they can and can’t do, etc. But the unions aren’t giving up without a fight.
“For too long, the courts have sided with corporations over labor, fundamentally and perniciously reshaping American law, life and liberty,†Sara Nelson, president of the American Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, recently wrote in The New York Times. “Today, they are doing their part to unravel the American dream—and the social contract that has been in place since the 1940s, offering the working class a good life if they spend 40 hours on the job, the means to enjoy it in off hours and a secure retirement.†To discuss where things stand now with each of these important strikes and how companies like Kellogg’s and Warrior Met Coal are trying to use the courts to break them, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Larry Spencer in Alabama and Dan Osborn in Nebraska. Larry Spencer is currently serving as Vice President for District 20 of the United Mine Workers of America, which represents the 1,100 miners who have been on strike at Warrior Met Coal since April. Dan Osborn has worked at the Kellogg’s plant in Omaha, Nebraska, for 18 years and currently serves as president of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM), Local 50G.
Read the transcript of this interview: https://therealnews.com/how-companies-like-kelloggs-are-weaponizing-the-courts-to-break-strikes
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you know i hear alot of people talking about free speech, most of those dont talk about this.
By teaching to standardized tests and removing civics from schools, and giving students the illusion of a quick, rich entrepreneur, Millennials empathize more with corporations than their own plight.
Used to be a lot more support, picket lines were a dangerous place to be. Should still be that way. This is the sort of thing that years ago your local biker club as well as hells angels would support, enforcing the picket line. Hope everyone starts growing a pair and stand up. Get 10 cent raise and management does it's best to force another $1 of work out of you. Pace of work, treatment from management, overly strict attendance policies, forced OT at the last minute, no regard if you had already paid out or made appointments for time off. Kelloggs, Amazon, Walmart, whirlpool, and all other large corporate facilities should be union, and held to better standard.
Companies aren't weaponizing the courts, the courts are full of tyrant slavers just like the legislature and senate because that's all that will get through our rigged elections. Just like Abacus the micro brewers and small farms. They are ever the attack dogs of feudalism masquerading as capitalism, the same economic system as always here and in most of the world whether it masquerades as socialism in russia and china, or capitalism in america france and britain.
Great guests! Another great episode. Thank you!
No comment on Julian Assange
Unions kill everything they infest. I have witnessed it first hand.
Much solidarity to Dan and Larry and all of their union members!!! Definitely have been, and will continue to, boycott Kellogg's!!
Boycott Kelloggs and donate to the mine workers' and Kelloggs workers' strike funds
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Get polarized lenses on your cameras when someone points a gun at you and disable the flash if you're getting threatened like that. I can't believe Rittenhouse got off on defense and you are prohibited from adequately defending yourselves. Crazy.
The unions need to grow some balls and go after these unconstitutional laws in higher courts. That is what they are paid for. RECORDE AND LIVE STREEM all inter action. Get the FEDS involved with proof. RECORED RECORDE RECORDE and LIVE STREEM!!!!!!!!!! stop the war on the middle class in the constitution where where you can demonstrate with only 4 people UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!!!!
They did pack the courts with MOSCOW MITCH McConnell own. GOP war on the middle class. GOP want haves and have nots. LIVE STREEM EVERYTHING.
Seems to me they're, the corporates, are stomping on the US Constitution by limiting the right to assemble and the right to protest. This should not be!
Looks like a few posted comments here meant to inspire a thumbs down… Probably corporate goons.
Don't take the bait!
Americans are United and just dont care.
I feel like at this point we allow this to happen.. We have created an extremely complacent and uneducated society of people who fight for their own corporate enslavement, harder then they fight for the freedom from corporate oppression. Too many people are more likely to defend corporations and billionaires harder they protect their own families, friends, and communities. I'm homeless and when I hear people defend real estate companies and landlords harder then the homeless I feel disgusted.
Coal miners striking? COAL MINERS? There are still coal miners in the US? These people need to understand… There is no future in coal. They are on a losing path regardless.
What is he TALKING about? You can see the guns that are pointed at them, but when you try to take a picture, even professional photographers cant do it? WHAT? These people… They exist in theiir own bubbles of misinformation, conspiracies, and belief. Nothing is really real to the american minimum wage workers. They have ZERO education and weird world views. Can these people even be helped? Do they even know what they want? I bet if I asked a couple of questions to this guy, I would get extremely weird answers.
Americans allow this to happen. An uneducated and extremely complacent society of people. A nation of people who are more likely to defend corporations and billionaires harder they defend their own families, friends, and communities. Disgraceful.