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Truckers strike washington dc1/21/2024 The department is "monitoring and will work collaboratively with our regional law enforcement partners to ensure public safety," the ACPD said in an email to Patch. The Arlington County Police Department said it is aware of the reports of potential trucker protests. Bolus, who owns a truck parts and towing business in Scranton, said he plans to leave Pennsylvania on Wednesday morning, drive through D.C., then head to the Beltway.īolus, a supporter of former President Donald Trump, told Fox5 that his grievances range from fuel prices to school vaccine requirements to immigration. 174, 21-1449."We will be along the Beltway where the Beltway will be shut down," Bob Bolus told Fox5 on Sunday. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local Union No. But, he said, he was confident that the union’s actions would ultimately be found to be protected by the NLRB. “Our client is entitled to just compensation for its property that the union intentionally destroyed,” he said.ĭarin Dalmat, a lawyer for the union, said in a statement that while the union was disappointed, “nothing in this decision will stop workers from exercising their federally protected rights to strike when necessary to achieve better wages, benefits, and working conditions.”ĭalmat said that in “this particular case, Glacier has found a way to prolong its meritless lawsuit” and get past a motion to dismiss. when they intentionally destroy an employer’s property,” In a statement, Glacier Northwest’s lawyer, Noel Francisco, said the decision “vindicates the longstanding principle that federal law does not shield labor unions. “That the drivers returned the trucks to Glacier’s facility does not do much for the Union - refraining from stealing an employer’s vehicles does not demonstrate that one took reasonable precautions to protect them,” Barrett wrote. Lawyers for the union had said that in this case the drivers were instructed to be conscientious when they walked off the job, to bring their full trucks back to Glacier’s facility and to leave the trucks’ mixing drums spinning so that the concrete would not immediately begin to harden.īarrett said that argument wasn’t persuasive. Then, they waited to walk off the job until the concrete was mixed and poured in the trucks,” Barrett wrote. By “reporting for duty and pretending as if they would deliver the concrete, the drivers prompted the creation of the perishable product. The union said Glacier’s lawsuit should only be allowed to go forward in state court if the federal National Labor Relations Board first found that the union’s actions were not protected by federal law.īarrett wrote that because the union did not take reasonable precautions to protect Glacier’s property, the trial court was wrong to think federal law required dismissing the lawsuit. Glacier said its lawsuit in state court should not have been dismissed at the outset. The question for the Supreme Court was about how the case should proceed. The company sued the union in state court for intentionally damaging its property the lawsuit was initially dismissed. Glacier not only had to dump the concrete but also pay for the wasted concrete to be broken up and hauled away. Glacier says the union timed the strike to create chaos and inflict damage.
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