Noah Zatz (’01), Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law, authored a two-part series for OnLabor examining how the recent temporary restraining order issued at the University of California’s urging against UAW Local 4811’s unfair labor practice (ULP) strike constitutes serious and destructive judicial overreach. Noah discussed how the strike, “arising from the UC’s violent suppression of Palestine Solidarity Encampments at UCLA, UC San Diego, and UC Irvine . . . and the underlying ULPs, raise fascinating questions about the contested boundary between ‘political’ and work-related activity and about how labor law approaches social movement activity addressing multifaceted systemic issues.” (“The University of California Strike Injunction (Part 1),” Jun. 24). “All told, this episode illustrates the very dangers meant to be forestalled by administrative jurisdiction over ULPs and limits on labor injunctions,” Noah argued, pointing to the need for “even sharper limits on trial court intervention and for mechanisms that make employers like the UC pay a hefty price if they successfully importune a court to go rogue nonetheless.” (“The UC Strike Injunction’s Second Fatal Flaw,” Jun. 25).
