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The risk of strikes or other labor disputes is a key consideration in warehousing. In some industries, work stoppages or other disputes among production workers are a likely occurrence, and therefore it’s important to have a strategy for continuous distribution of finished p roducts, even when one or more production plants is on strike.1

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  1. The author is indebted to Theodore J. Tierney, a partner in the law firm of Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, Chicago, for extensive research and advice in the preparation of this chapter.

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  2. From Volume 19 Number 8, Warehouse and Physical Distribution Report, ©Marketing Publications Inc., Silver Spring, MD. Some of the ideas here were based on lectures and writings of Charles Hughes, Center for Values Research; Fred Pryor, Fred Pryor Seminars Inc.; Alfred T. DeMaria, attorney at Clifton Budd Barlach and DeMaria.

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  3. Local 8, Steel Fabricators & Warehousemen (Fein Can Co.) 131 NLRB 59 (1961); Local 6, Int’l Longshoremen’s & Warehousemen’s Union (Hershey Chocolate Corp.), 153 NLRB 1051 enf’d 378 F.2d l (9th Cir. 1967).

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  4. NLRB v. Ironworkers Local 433, 850 F.2d. 551, 554, fn. 2 (9th Cir. 1988).

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  5. From Vol. 15 No. 4, Warehousing and Physical Distribution Productivity Report. 1980 Marketing Publications, Inc., Silver Spring, MD.

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  6. From Volume 19 Number 8, Warehouse and Physical Distribution Report, Marketing Publications, Inc., Silver Spring, MD.

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Ackerman, K.B. (1990). Labor Relations. In: Practical Handbook of Warehousing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1194-3_27

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