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Article: Access to customers.(no union right to leaflet customers)(The Law At Work)
- Article from:
- Monthly Labor Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 1996
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Does Federal labor law protect a union's access to an employer's property in order to distribute handbills to the owner's customers? The answer to this question i. no, according to a recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
The case, United Food and Commercial Workers Local No. 880 v. NLRB,(4) consolidated union petitions for review of two rulings handed down last year by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The Board had found that Federal labor law did not give a union the right to picket and hand out leaflets to customers on an employer's property. In upholding the Board, the DC Appeals Court has severely limited ...