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 Las Vegas resort contracted with a construction company to perform renovation work at the resort, and the construction company sent contracted work to an environmental company. Neither the resort, construction company, nor the environmental company were represented by the Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA), the union that chose the resort as its…

A few posts ago I covered picketing. Part I dealt with Recognitional, Informational, and Area Standards Picketing. Part 2 covered Mass Picketing, Common Situs Picketing, and Signal Picketing. I promised at the end of the signal picketing excerpt to expand on the Union Rat. Here’s me making good on that promise. Unions consider employers who do not have unions to be rats.…

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…