The order follows local media reports of damaged property and run-ins with local law enforcement that have led to the arrests of a dozen or so union members.
A court in Tennessee has granted General Motors' request for a temporary restraining order to prevent United Auto Workers members picketing outside its Spring Hill Assembly plant from blocking the entrance, among other alleged "unlawful conduct."
The 3,300 workers at the Tennessee plant are among the roughly 48,000 UAW members who have been on strike for a week following the union and company not reaching a tentative contract agreement by a Sept. 14 deadline.Michael Wayland | CNBCrequest for a temporary restraining order to prevent United Auto Workers members who have been on strike and picketing outside its Spring Hill Assembly plant from blocking the entrance, among other alleged "unlawful conduct.
Maury County Sheriff's Department, which has jurisdiction where the plant is located, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the incidents.been on strike for a weekGM, in its complaint, detailed picketers stopping vehicles from entering the facility as well as other unlawful behavior such as placing "screws and nails on the roadway leading to the facility" and threatening and illegally detaining motorists who were trying to enter the plant.
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