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GLACIER NORTHWEST, INC. v. TEAMSTERS 

JACKSON, J., dissenting 

12,  2023,  an  ALJ  denied  Glacier’s  motion  to postpone  the 
ALJ  hearing  on  the  General  Counsel’s  complaint  pending 
this Court’s decision in this case.  As the ALJ explained, the
General  Counsel’s  pleading  “constituted  a  determination 
that the strikers’ conduct was at  least arguably protected 
by [the NLRA] and that this agency became the exclusive 
forum  for  adjudicating  whether  the  strikers’  conduct  was 
protected.”3    A  nine-day  hearing  ensued,  and  the  parties
completed  posthearing  briefing  last  week.    We  have  said 
that “the need for protecting the exclusivity of [the Board’s] 
jurisdiction  is  obviously  greatest  when  the  precise  issue 
brought before a court is in the process of litigation through 
procedures  originating  in  the  Board.”  Marine  Engineers, 
370 U. S., at 185.  That is exactly the situation here. 

For these reasons, I believe that the filing of the General 
Counsel’s complaint is more than sufficient to trigger Gar-
mon’s pause, and that it must be so if consistency with Con-
gress’s intent to give the Board primary authority to inter-
pret  and  enforce  the  NLRA  is  to  be  maintained. 
In 
circumstances like these, “the States as well as the federal 
courts  must  defer  to  the  exclusive  competence  of  the  Na-
tional Labor Relations Board.”  Garmon, 359 U. S., at 245. 
And this Court is no exception.  Because the General Coun-
sel has now filed a complaint with the Board concerning the 
labor dispute at issue in this case, all courts—including this 
one—should stand down. 

B 
The majority does not take issue with my conclusion that
the General Counsel’s complaint triggers a Garmon hiatus; 
instead, it takes no position on the matter, leaving the ques-
tion open for the Washington courts to decide on remand. 
Ante, at 11, n. 3. 

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3 Order Denying Motion for Postponement of Hearing in Glacier North-

west, Inc., Nos. 19–CA–203068, 19–CA–211776, p. 7.