Going by his past rulings on federal appeals courts, GOP President Donald Trump’s nominee to fill Justice Anthony Kennedy’s vacant U.S. Supreme Court seat – federal appellate judge Brett Kavanaugh -- will be bad news for workers and unions if Kavanaugh makes it to the High Court.
• In 2007, Kavanaugh said the Defense Department had temporary authority to curb the collective bargaining rights of 700,000 civilian defense workers. AFGE and its allies later persuaded Congress to dump that. • Kavanaugh also said undocumented workers can’t unionize under the National Labor Relations Act; in a 2008 case involving a Brooklyn kosher meat packer, the appeals court majority said they could. • In 2015, Kavanaugh ruled that the U.S. Constitution protected not just union demonstrators at the Venetian Casino in Las Vegas, but the casino’s right to call the police on the peaceful protest. “Judge Kavanaugh has a dangerous track record of protecting the privileges of the wealthy and powerful at the expense of working people,” said AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka. Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1983, a nine-year strike, the longest in the history of the United Auto Workers, began at the Ohio Crankshaft Division of Park-Ohio Industries in Cuyahoga Heights, Ohio. Despite scabs, arrests and firings, UAW Local 91 members hung tough and in 1992 won a fair contract. Today’s labor quote is by Tom Donahue, who served as secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO from 1979 to 1995 and as president in 1995. Tom Donahue, who said: “The only effective answer to organized greed is organized labor.”
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