Court Opinion

ID: 9462417
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 22:40:38.829812+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:37:34.941235
License: Public Domain

ROSS, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
I dissent from that portion of the opinion which holds that the first shift employees who organized and participated in their second work stoppage in less than twenty hours should not have been discharged. At the first work stoppage the employees made their wage demands known to management but rather than wait even twenty-four hours for a response, or request a meeting between one of their representatives and management after a reasonable wait, they not only attempted-to enforce their demands by another immediate work stoppage but also successfully encouraged second shift workers to illegally enter the plant to join them. It seems ludicrous to me that the ringleaders of the second work stoppage are being protected and some of the ones who joined with them from the second shift are not.
I consider this an exceedingly unfortunate precedent which is likely to lead to more labor strife and conflict rather than do anything to lessen those possibilities in the future.