Court Opinion

ID: 9694182
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 17:27:44.226499+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:19:57.076169
License: Public Domain

Knutson, Justice
(concurring specially).
. I concur in the' result. It appears to me that the contract between the employer and the employes had terminated and that the evidence does not establish that there was a strike. The employes, having no contract, simply quit their work and sought employment elsewhere. The court’s decision is based on the finding that there was a violation of an existing contract, which constituted an unfair labor practice. If there was no contract and no strike, the basis for the court’s injunction failed. It may not have been necessary to pass upon the question whether the vote authorizing a strike was legal under our statute, in view of the fact that we hold that there was no contract and no strike. If we are to pass on it, I cannot agree with the majority opinion that the strike vote taken complies with our statute. Under § 179.11(8), a strike, to be lawful, must be approved “by a majority vote of the voting employees in a collective bargaining unit of the employees of <m employer or association of employers against whom such strike is primarily directed.” (Italics supplied.) The vote shown by the record in this case was not taken among the employes of the employer against whom the strike was directed at all. There never has been a vote taken among the employes of the bargaining unit involved.