First Amendment Requires Police to Respond to Employer’s Complaint about Union Trespassers

When over 1,000 demonstrators showed up on the Venetian Casino Resort’s property in Las Vegas, the casino believed they were trespassers and asked them to leave. The resort then asked the police to intervene. The union filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board alleging that the Venetian interfered with the…
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NLRB Building a Pathway to Overturn Moore Dry Dock

According to Moore Dry Dock, a case from 1950, unions are required to provide assurances to secondary employers at a “common situs” that might be affected by picketing against a primary employer that their activity will not target the secondary companies. This law, which has been around for over 60 years, will likely soon be…
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Types of Union Picketing (Part 2)

In Part 1 of “What is Picketing,” I covered Recognitional Picketing, Informational Picketing, and Area Standards Picketing, as well as how long picketing can occur under certain circumstances and how to check to make sure that the picketing occurring outside your company is legal. I also encouraged you to seek legal counsel at the first sign of…
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