Union Trying to Organize Casino Workers Guilty of Bullying
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB
Unite Here tried to organize workers at an Indiana casino to join the union. Part of the organizing strategy was to harass customers of the casino at their homes and businesses through a secondary boycott. A secondary boycott is a tactic used by unions to stop a neutral third party (casino customers) from doing business…
Read More Secondary Boycotts: Unruly Union Behavior
By Management Labor Lawyer | | NLRB
The NLRB recently addressed a common practice among unions called secondary boycotting. A secondary boycott is a union tactic where the union pressures innocent parties to stop doing business with a targeted employer. The Culinary Union in Las Vegas has aggressively implemented secondary boycotts against non-union casinos, hotels, and restaurants. For example, the Union has…
Read More Sham Litigation Violates Secondary Boycott Provisions of NLRA
By Management Labor Lawyer | | Union Organizing, Worker Centers
The takeaway from this case is pretty simple: a union that files 14 baseless lawsuits against a company developing a grocery store engages in sham litigation and violates the National Labor Relations Act’s law against pressuring a secondary (or neutral) employer to cease doing business with the primary employer because the union has a dispute…
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