Currently, employers that want to ban or limit picketing or other demonstrations on their property by off-duty workers must show the activities would be disruptive to their operations. Unfortunately, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to rule on whether federal labor law protects off-duty workers who held stationary picket signs on company property which is different…

Here, the National Labor Relations Board concluded that ImageFIRST Uniform Rental Service Inc. interfered with employee rights under the National Labor Relations Act by calling police in response to leafletting and picketing outside its facility. While the facility manager could ask police to remove the activists because they repeatedly trespassed on its driveway and on…

NetJets’ (headquartered in Columbus, Ohio) workers who are represented by Teamsters Local 284 (Columbus, Ohio) launched an informational picketing campaign at the PGA’s Memorial Tournament (Columbus, Ohio). The Teamsters represent aircraft mechanics, maintenance control, aircraft fuelers, aircraft cleaners, and stock clerks at NetJets. The union is mad that the company is not giving into its…

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…

A labor union picketed and caused a ruckus outside an Urban Outfitters store located inside a shopping mall because Urban Outfitter hired a non-union construction company to make renovations at the store. Specifically, dozens of union members “started a disruptive protest by marching in a circle, yelling, chanting loudly in unison, blowing whistles, hitting and…

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…