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Union representing the booksellers of The Elliott Bay Book Company. Resolution Tell the US Supreme Court Big Business and Corporate Politicians Hands Off Our Right to Strike. WHEREAS the right to strike is a fundamental human right and is the most powerful weapon in the hands of workers and union siblings have fought bravely over the years in numerous battles in the streets and in legislatures to win defend and exercise this fundamental democratic right and WHEREAS in the last two years we have seen an upsurge of workers strikingin healthcare manufacturing education transportation construction and in new organizing campaigns including coffee workers and warehouse workers and WHEREAS our labor movement has proudly stood with these and other workers as they struck to demand and secure their fundamental rights including good pay and working conditions and WHEREAS the bosses corporations and their representatives in government recognizing the power of strikes have always tried to deny or erode the right of workers to strike through fear tactics by hiring scabs seeking court injunctions and trying to pass new laws that limit or outlaw strikes and even through acts of violence against workers and WHEREAS these attacks on the right to strike while often aimed at individual groups of workers are in fact attacks against all of us since An Injury to One Is an Injury to All and WHEREAS now in 2023 corporations aided by the U. S.