Government and Labor: The Latest Phase

Its Own Dubious Battle: The Impossible Defense of an Effective Right to Strike

“…262 Lloyd Garrison, dean of Wisconsin Law School, former New Deal official, and a principle in a failed attempt to mediate the Little Steel Strike, advanced a similar argument, supporting the strikes but conceding that the courts would never honor the practice as a right. 263 Others did go somewhat further in justifying the sit-down strikes. Leon Green, dean of Northwestern Law School, depicted the strikes as legitimate means of negotiating a relationship between workers and employers that no longer contemplated the former being fired en masse-any more than a wife could "fire her husband, a parent his child."…”