In a dispute about the pressure that organized labor can exert during a strike, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday against unionized drivers who walked off the job with their trucks full of wet concrete.
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.