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Alt-Labor, Secondary Boycotts, And Toward A Labor Organization Bargain, Michael C. Duff
Alt-Labor, Secondary Boycotts, And Toward A Labor Organization Bargain, Michael C. Duff
Catholic University Law Review
Recently, workers led by non-union labor advocacy groups, popularly labeled “ALT-Labor,” staged strikes and other job actions across the low-wage economy. Some observers see this activity as the harbinger of a reinvigorated labor movement or as audacious dissent by low-wage workers with nothing to lose. Others view the activity cynically as an exercise in futility, a struggle against inexorable market forces that refuse to pay $15 per hour to a fast food restaurant or big box retail worker. This article presumes that employers will respond to ALT-Labor in a historically typical manner—by seeking labor injunctions and civil damages in courts. …