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Re:Inspired by Alabama’s union battle, Amazon workers elsewh... by advisedwang on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @03:10PM (#26403495)
The law gives unions rights essentially as a political deal in exchange for other restrictions on unions. In exchange for the law forcing companies to bargain with unions and giving some protections:

* Unions can't strike when they have a contract in place

* Unions can't strike in solidarity with each other (ie the teamsters can't strike to help a longshorement strike)

* There can't be more than one union covering the same workforce

* Unions must give advance notice of strikes

etc

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Re:Inspired by Alabama’s union battle, Amazon workers elsewh... by gruez on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @03:18PM (#26403601)
>* Unions can't strike when they have a contract in place

shouldn't that be covered by contract law? eg. if company A enters into a contract with company B to supply them with widgets, then company A decides to "strike", they'd get sued for breach of contract. Doesn't the same apply to labor contracts?

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