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Secondary Consumer Picketing, Statutory Interpretation And The First Amendment, Michigan Law Review
Secondary Consumer Picketing, Statutory Interpretation And The First Amendment, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
This Note examines both the statutory and constitutional implications of Safeco and Tree Fruits. It suggests that the confusion surrounding existing Board and court interpretations of section 8(b)(4)(ii)(B) stems from the Supreme Court's failure to assess realistically the impact that consumer picketing has on secondary businesses, as well as the Court's refusal to examine the objectives of unions that resort to secondary picketing.
Labor Law--Picketing--Constitutional Law--First Amendment Challenges By Federal Employees To The Broad Labor Picketing Proscription Of Executive Order 11491, Michigan Law Review
Labor Law--Picketing--Constitutional Law--First Amendment Challenges By Federal Employees To The Broad Labor Picketing Proscription Of Executive Order 11491, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
This Note will consider the constitutional validity of section 19(b)(4)'s broad prohibition against federal-employee labor picketing. However, before the first amendment questions are considered, two preliminary issues should be discussed.
Labor Law--Boycotts And Strikes--Picketing--The Picketing Of An Independent Warehouse I Which A Primary Employer's Goods Are Stored-- Steelworkers, Local 6991 (Auburndale Freezer Corp.), Michigan Law Review
Labor Law--Boycotts And Strikes--Picketing--The Picketing Of An Independent Warehouse I Which A Primary Employer's Goods Are Stored-- Steelworkers, Local 6991 (Auburndale Freezer Corp.), Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
When a group of employees strike against their own employer--the primary employer-their purpose usually is to disrupt his operations in the hope that economic pressure will persuade or coerce him to meet their demands. They may picket the primary employer's premises in order to publicize the strike or to try to persuade fellow employees to join it; and even if the picketing induces third persons not to deal with the primary, the employees' activity constitutes protected primary picketing. If the goal of the striking employees is in fact to publicize the strike and to persuade their co-workers, they will naturally …
Labor Law--Until Congress Acts, Secondary Picketing By Unions Subject To The Railway Labor Act Is Protected Against State Proscription--Brotherhood Of Railroad Trainmen V. Jacksonville Terminal Company, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
In a major labor dispute between the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Florida East Coast Railway Company (FEC), the parties, having exhausted all the procedures of the Railway Labor Act (RLA) for resolving a major dispute, resorted to self-help remedies. FEC unilaterally changed its operating employees' rates of pay, rules, and working conditions; and the union, in turn, called a strike and picketed peacefully at locations where FEC operated, including the premises of the Jacksonville Terminal Company, which served a number of other railroads. The avowed objective of the union's picketing was to cause the other carriers using the …
Labor Relations--Consumer Picketing Under Section 8(B) (4) (Ii) (B) Of The National Labor Relations Act--Honolulu Typographical Union, No. 37, I.T.U., A.F.L.-C.I.O. V. Nlrb, Michigan Law Review
Labor Relations--Consumer Picketing Under Section 8(B) (4) (Ii) (B) Of The National Labor Relations Act--Honolulu Typographical Union, No. 37, I.T.U., A.F.L.-C.I.O. V. Nlrb, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
The principal case is concerned generally with the problem of secondary activity by unions, and specifically with the application of a judicially created exception to the general prohibition against such activity. As originally written, section 8(b)(4) was intended to protect neutral employers from becoming involved in disputes between other employers and unions by prohibiting certain union activities. Among the practices forbidden was the traditional secondary boycott which arises when a union in a dispute with a primary employer brings pressure to bear on other employers (secondary employers), through their employees, to cease doing business with the primary. However, the statute …
Product Picketing-A New Loophole In Section 8(H) (4) Of The National Labor Relations Act?, Michael A. Warner
Product Picketing-A New Loophole In Section 8(H) (4) Of The National Labor Relations Act?, Michael A. Warner
Michigan Law Review
Legal writers have been intrigued for years by the challenge of classifying and identifying the resulting incidents of the joint and survivor bank deposit when an attempt is made to use it as a mode of effectuating a donor depositor's intention to confer benefits on a donee co-depositor. Much in their discussions is useful to one who is concerned with the concept that has evolved in Michigan, where a 1909 statute states that some co-depositors are presumed to be joint tenants. Michigan judges and practitioners must determine, however, whether comment about national trends is applicable here, for in many respects …
Labor Law--Injunctions--Order Restraining Election Aboard "Flag-Of-Convenience" Vessel, Lee D. Powar
Labor Law--Injunctions--Order Restraining Election Aboard "Flag-Of-Convenience" Vessel, Lee D. Powar
Michigan Law Review
Upon petition of the National Maritime Union, the National Labor Relations Board directed a representation election among all unlicensed foreign seamen employed by Empresa Hondurena de Vapores, S.A., aboard a Honduran-registered ship. Empresa, a Honduran corporation which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the United Fruit Company, sought injunctive relief in a federal district court. The petition alleged that the Board's order violated treaty obligations, the Constitution of the United States and principles of international law. The Regional Director of the NLRB moved to dismiss, asserting that the district court lacked jurisdiction to enjoin such an order and that the Board's …
Labor Law- Recognition And Organizational Picketing - Unfair Labor Practice Charge Is A Prerequisite To Initiation Of The Expeditied Election Procedure Of Section 8 (B)(7)(C) Of The Nlra, Steven P. Davis
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff union commenced picketing a previously-unorganized company for the purpose of gaining recognition as the bargaining agent of the employees. The next day the union filed a petition with the NLRB seeking an election. Five days later the individual plaintiffs, Reed and Whitney, filed an unfair labor practice charge under section 8 (b) (7) of the National Labor Relations Act for the express purpose of invoking the expedited election procedure provided by the statute. This charge was prepared by and filed with the sanction of the picketing union. The NLRB refused to grant the expedited election. In an action for …
Protecting The Public Interest In Labor Disputes, Frank E. Cooper
Protecting The Public Interest In Labor Disputes, Frank E. Cooper
Michigan Law Review
There exists general agreement that an effective means must be found, in the public interest, to curb strikes in basic industries that imperil the national health or safety. This principle, indeed, has been a part of our basic law for more than a decade. The trouble has been that the limited means provided to meet this need fail to give effective expression to the public interest. The only significant remedy is that which the steel strike has made so well known: an 80-day injunction followed by an election in which the employees may indicate for publicity purposes whether they wish …
"Congress Shall Make No Law..."*, O. John Rogge
"Congress Shall Make No Law..."*, O. John Rogge
Michigan Law Review
It is the position of the writer that, at least so far as Congress is concerned, speech is as free as thought, and that unless and until speech becomes a part of a course of conduct which Congress can restrain or regulate no federal legislative power over it exists. State power, despite the Fourteenth Amendment, may be somewhat more extensive. Certainly the framers of the First Amendment intended that it should be. This article will deal with federal power over speech.
Labor Law - Nlra - "Roving Situs" Picketing As Violation Of Section 8(B)(4)(A), William K. Muir Jr.
Labor Law - Nlra - "Roving Situs" Picketing As Violation Of Section 8(B)(4)(A), William K. Muir Jr.
Michigan Law Review
Respondent union sought to organize the crane and dragline operators of a manufacturer of ready-mixed cement and posted pickets about the local manufacturing plant. During the working day each of the employer's delivery trucks crossed the picket line at least twice. In addition, the union established a roving picket line which circulated about the manufacturer's trucks while they were making deliveries to customers at local construction sites. The roving picketing lasted only so long as the workers of the primary employer remained on the customer's premises. The pickets at all times stayed within six hundred feet of the trucks. The …
Labor Law - Organizational Picketing In Industries Not Affecting Interstate Commerce, Arne Hovdesven
Labor Law - Organizational Picketing In Industries Not Affecting Interstate Commerce, Arne Hovdesven
Michigan Law Review
Representatives of defendant union approached plaintiff, proprietor of a small liquor store, with information that they planned to initiate an organizational campaign to obtain the membership of the store's three clerks, none of whom were members of any union at that time. Subsequent to this meeting, a picket line of two men was established and was maintained without any acts of violence, for over nineteen months until halted by a permanent injunction issued by the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division. The union did not make any demands upon plaintiff to sign a contract or to recognize it as bargaining …
Labor Law - Labor - Management Relations Act - Attempt To Institute Consumer Boycott As Unfair Labor Practice, George B. Berridge S.Ed.
Labor Law - Labor - Management Relations Act - Attempt To Institute Consumer Boycott As Unfair Labor Practice, George B. Berridge S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
In attempting to induce certain employees of defendant, a manufacturer of bakery products, to join a bakery workers' union, the union and several labor councils picketed retail stores selling defendant's goods in Los Angeles. Placards carried by the pickets stated that defendant was non-union and on the 'We-do-not-patronize" list of various labor organizations. A California state court granted defendant a preliminary injunction against the picketing. Thereupon the National Labor Relations Board applied to federal district court for a preliminary injunction restraining defendant from invoking the injunction granted by the state court, claiming that since the unions' conduct was an unfair …
Equity-Criminal Contempt-Violation Of Court Order Or Decree-Attorney's Responsibility, Warren K. Urbom S.Ed.
Equity-Criminal Contempt-Violation Of Court Order Or Decree-Attorney's Responsibility, Warren K. Urbom S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Employees of R, while on strike, picketed in the vicinity of a warehouse that was owned by X hut a part of which had been rented by R. The warehouse was served by two railroad spur tracks and two streets. Attempts to deliver goods to the warehouse via the railroad tracks were physically obstructed by the pickets, whereupon a temporary injunction issued restraining employees from "picketing ... plaintiff's railroad tracks and spur tracks or right of way or property in any manner whatsoever .... " Thereafter, on the strength of an attorney's advice, the employees maintained pickets fourteen …
Constitutional Law-Appellate Jurisdiction Over State Court Decisions-When Is A State Court Decision "Final", Marcus A. Rowden S.Ed.
Constitutional Law-Appellate Jurisdiction Over State Court Decisions-When Is A State Court Decision "Final", Marcus A. Rowden S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff brought suit to enjoin peaceful picketing of an apartment project by defendant labor organizations. The Circuit Court, Montgomery County, Alabama granted temporary injunction ex parte. Defendants appealed to the Alabama Supreme Court which affirmed the trial court's order denying a motion to dissolve the injunction. Certiorari was sought and granted by the United States Supreme Court. Held, certiorari had been improvidently granted since the Alabama Supreme Court's determination had not constituted a final judgment or decree. Montgomery Bldg. and Constr. Trades Council v. Ledbetter Erection Co.,. 344 U.S. 178, 73 S.Ct. 196 (1952).
Labor Law-Labor-Management Relations Act-Relationship Of Remedies Under Title I And Title Iii, Wendell B. Will S.Ed.
Labor Law-Labor-Management Relations Act-Relationship Of Remedies Under Title I And Title Iii, Wendell B. Will S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Petitioner, a local of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, established a picket line at respondent's lumber mill and notified other locals to refuse to unload respondent's products. Petitioner sought to force respondent to assign certain jobs to its men. Respondent's policy had been to use its own employees for the disputed work. As a result of petitioner's action respondent was forced to suspend its operations. Respondent filed an unfair labor practice charge with the NLRB alleging union violation of section 8(b)(4)(D) of the LMRA. After some time the NLRB determined that petitioner's men were not entitled to the disputed …
Constitutional Law-Due Process Of Law-Thornhill Reexamined, Rex Eames S.Ed.
Constitutional Law-Due Process Of Law-Thornhill Reexamined, Rex Eames S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
In the spring of 1940, the Isle of Thornhill emerged from the watery depths and assumed a position in the Sea of American Constitutional Law. The discoverors of this Isle indicated their success was largely due to certain revelations made known three years· before by another highly distinguished explorer. The pronouncement in 1940 of the Isle's existence excited great furor and debate among the professional geographers as to its substance and future utility. In the early days of its discovery, Thornhill's area and coastline were not precisely or clearly charted, and only through several subsequent voyages have these important …
Constitutional Limitations On The Regulation Of Union And Employer Conduct, Charles O. Gregory
Constitutional Limitations On The Regulation Of Union And Employer Conduct, Charles O. Gregory
Michigan Law Review
This is a discussion of constitutional issues involved in federal and state regulations pertaining to labor. The importance of substantive due process has dwindled away, except in relation to picketing and Jim Crow unionism. The dominant issue has become the exercise of power, in a jurisdictional sense, to eliminate socially injurious practices. During the past half century the Supreme Court has taken almost all possible positions on these matters. Pursuing the ideal of a living document, the Court has retailored the Constitution to suit the political exigencies and the dominant interest pressures of any given time.
Labor Law-Compulsory Arbitration Of Labor Disputes, James A. Sprunk S.Ed.
Labor Law-Compulsory Arbitration Of Labor Disputes, James A. Sprunk S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
In 1947, seven states adopted legislation for compulsory arbitration of labor disputes in public utilities. Four more provide for seizure of such industries in cases of strikes or lockouts, and one prohibits picketing or interference with the service of a public utility. In addition, procedures for conciliation, mediation, or voluntary arbitration with suspension of the right to strike or lockout during such procedures, are provided by still others. Such legislative activity reflects the growing public concern regarding labor disputes and indicates that many state legislators are convinced that to secure industrial peace more is required than the mere imposition of …
Labor Law-Torts-Liability Of Labor Union For Inducing Breach Of Contract, Ira M. Price, Ii S.Ed.
Labor Law-Torts-Liability Of Labor Union For Inducing Breach Of Contract, Ira M. Price, Ii S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
During the past fifteen years the law as a whole has moved rapidly in the direction of favoring union activity. A labor policy expressed in numerous federal and state laws and important judicial decisions has generally recognized and protected in the courts the workers' right to be free from employer interference, to strike, to engage in peaceful picketing, and to conduct primary boycotts. Within this liberalizing judicial concept of the rights of labor, the present status of the action against labor unions for inducing breach of contract presents an interesting study of the tenacity of an early common law theory …
Labor Law-Constitutionality Of Statutes Prohibiting "Hot Goods" And "Secondary" Boycotts, Jerry S. Mccroskey
Labor Law-Constitutionality Of Statutes Prohibiting "Hot Goods" And "Secondary" Boycotts, Jerry S. Mccroskey
Michigan Law Review
In a contempt action against the business agent of an A.F.L. furniture and van workers local for violation of an injunction based on statutes prohibiting "hot goods" and "secondary" boycotts, held, petitioner discharged; the statutes are violative of the Fourteenth Amendment of the federal Constitution in prohibiting peaceful picketing or other publication of the facts concerning a labor dispute in pursuance of an "agreement or combination to cause" any employee to stop handling certain goods or to put pressure on his employer to do so. ln re Blaney, (Cal.1947) 184P. (2d) 892.
Labor Law-Some Developments During The Past Five Years-(A Service For Returning Veterans), Russell A. Smith
Labor Law-Some Developments During The Past Five Years-(A Service For Returning Veterans), Russell A. Smith
Michigan Law Review
It will be helpful in appraising labor relations problems of today to recall that unionism in this country has trodden a rough and thorny path over the past century. Unions were not welcomed by employers, worker inertia itself was a considerable obstacle, and by and large the general public was dubious as to the value of unionism. Facing these difficulties unions from the- beginning felt compelled to resort to self-help--the strike, the picket line, the boycott, etc.--to achieve their aims. In so doing they encountered vigorous and successful opposition in the courts, as injured economic interests, and even the government, …
Constltutional Law - Labor Unions - Injunction
Constltutional Law - Labor Unions - Injunction
Michigan Law Review
Complainants owned and operated a small cafeteria conducting the business without the aid of any employees. Defendants, a labor union and its president, picketed the cafeteria in an attempt "to organize it." The picketing was carried on by parade of one person at a time in front of the premises, at all times in an "orderly and peaceful" manner. Signs were carried which tended to give the impression that the complainants were "unfair" to organized labor and that the pickets "had been previously employed in the cafeteria." These representations were knowingly false in that there had been no employees in …
Labor Law-Objectives Test For Determining The Legality Of Labor Activities, Arthur B. Lathrop
Labor Law-Objectives Test For Determining The Legality Of Labor Activities, Arthur B. Lathrop
Michigan Law Review
It is the purpose of this paper to make a survey of the status of the objectives test as a method of determining the legality of labor activity before the Supreme Court rendered its momentous decisions in Thornhill v. Alabama, American Federation of Labor v. Swing, and the Meadowmoor case. Thereafter the state decisions will be examined to determine the effect of these recent Supreme Court cases on the objectives test.
Labor Law - Rights And Duties Under The National Labor Relations Act- Effect Of Norris-Laguardia Act, Lennart V. Larson
Labor Law - Rights And Duties Under The National Labor Relations Act- Effect Of Norris-Laguardia Act, Lennart V. Larson
Michigan Law Review
Defendants, members of a C.I.O. organization, petitioned for an election in plaintiff corporation's factory in order to determine the representatives of the employees for the purposes of collective bargaining. An employees' association, a union the members of which were restricted to employees of the corporation, received a majority of votes and was certified by the National Labor Relations Board as bargaining representative. Nevertheless, the C.I.O. union called a strike, demanding sole bargaining privileges and a closed shop. Picketing, violence and intimidation are alleged, as a result of which plaintiff's factory has had to shut down. Held, plaintiff is entitled …
Constitutional Law-Validity Of State Anti-Injunction Legislation
Constitutional Law-Validity Of State Anti-Injunction Legislation
Michigan Law Review
The development of organized labor in the United States has created difficult legal and social problems with which the courts and the legislatures are required to deal. The courts were the first to deal with these problems and, rightly or wrongly, attempted to apply to them the existing rules of law. For instance, the rules of property law have been applied. Where organized labor interfered with the carrying of the mail, it was said that the federal government had a property right in the mails. Where the carrying on of a business was interfered with, it was held that the …