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Metropolitan Edison Co. v. NLRB, 460 U.S. 693 (1983), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that, when punishing an employee for engaging in an unprotected strike, an employer may not consider their status as a union official when deciding the degree of discipline to inflict but may consider their role in the actual strike.
Under the Miller test, speech is unprotected if "the average person, applying contemporary community standards, [54] would find that the [subject or work in question], taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest", "the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct or excretory functions specifically defined by ...
Work-to-rule, also known as an Italian strike or a slowdown in United States usage, called in Italian a sciopero bianco meaning "white strike", [1] is a job action in which employees do no more than the minimum required by the rules of their contract or job, [2] [3] and strictly follow time-consuming rules normally not enforced. [4]
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work. A strike usually takes place in response to employee grievances. Strikes became common during the Industrial Revolution, when mass labor became important in factories and mines. As ...
A threatened strike at 56 Costco stores across six states has been averted for now, as the company and negotiators for the Teamsters union, representing 18,000 workers, reached an 11th hour ...
Ahead of the strike various logistics experts had said it would take three to five days to recover from any one day the ports were shut. For example, the Port of New York and New Jersey, the ...
[150] [151] Though that strike ended on 5 September, [150] a larger unprotected strike began days later, on 9 September, among the 15,000 employees of KDC West. On 21 September, the strike spread to the west section of Gold Fields's Beatrix mine in the Free State (employing 9,000 people); by 24 September, the entirety of the Beatrix mine had ...