New Low From CDI/CRC Mgmt (Update: Restriction lifted)

[OTM Al]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Did you miss the point about a lower tax rate to keep the backside open? Horseman are running at GP because they are open.The dispute is over future dates, not current dates. The idea that CDI keeps the backside open free of charge to assist owners and trainers is simply not true. Did you ever wonder why they don't charge stall rent when they aren't open like they do at CD? Just because Calder and GP are having a dispute about dates doesnt make essentially shutting down the business of the trainers and owners at Calder ok.

Ok or not is a matter of perspective and if you don't think the issue is linked, you don't have much of it at all.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by OTM Al

Ok or not is a matter of perspective and if you don't think the issue is linked, you don't have much of it at all.

No one is denying why they are doing it though it certainly is debatable that it will have the desired effect. But outside of a suit at CDI I dont know who else thinks that it is ok.

[tector]

There is a reason why, under US labor laws, secondary boycotts are generally illegal.

A secondary boycott is an unfair labor practice in which a union attempts to strike a neutral third party in order to put pressure on the company that is involved in a certification or de-certification action. It usually involves an organized refusal to purchase the products of, do business with or perform services for (such as deliver goods) a company which is doing business with another company where the employees are on strike or in a labor dispute.

Secondary boycotts are illegal under the federal Taft-Hartley Act and the Landrum-Griffin Act . Many states also have laws, which vary by state, prohibiting secondary boycotts.

http://definitions.uslegal.com/s/secondary-boycott/

Now, what CDI is doing is not illegal (probably)--these laws don't apply to them, and I don't know that any other such legal prohibition does either. That's simply because horsemen have no legislative lobby whatsoever. But the public policy justifications for these labor laws are directly analogous here: CDI is prepared to destroy innocent third parties to try to reach their target.

In short, CDI may not be criminals, but they are quite content to employ means that reek of gangsterism. They are scum.