TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT - National Labor Relations Board

118 Twenty-sixth Annual Report of the National Labor Relations Board
of picket lines by employees As again pointed out during the past
year, such conduct is unlawful regardless of whether it succeeds in
estraming nonstriking employees from exercising their right to
work 77
Strike activities which were found violative of section 8(b) (1) (A)
included mass picketing, the blocking of ingress to and egress from
struck plants, and actual and threatened physical violence—including
damage to vehicles—directed toward employees, supervisory and
managerial personnel, workers of other employers, and various other
persons 78 In one case, the actions of pickets in surrounding and
breaking the window of a truck belonging to a neutral employer,
thereby causing the driver to collide with another vehicle while attempting
to leave the employer's yard, was held violative of section
8(b) (1) (A), since this conduct was but another link in a pattern of
unlawful conduct in which the union was engaging 78 In another
case, a union's attempts by forcible means and threats of violence to
obstruct the lawful organizing activities of nonemployee agents and
officers of a rival union were held to constitute unlawful restiaint and
coercion of employees 80 This conduct, the Board held, not only
impeded employees in their right to obtain information concerning,
and to indicate support for, the rival union, but also demonstrated to
the many employees:present at the time that they too could reasonably
expect to be subject to such violent and abusive actions if they participated
in rival union activities The Board observed that even those
employees who were not present were likely to learn of the respondent
union's "open and notorious" conduct And picketing of a nonstriker's
home was held unlawful in one instance
Union utterances addressed to employees have been held violative
of section 8(b) (1) (A) wheie they contained express or implied
threats of loss of employment or employment opportunities because of
employees' exercise of statutory rights 82 In one case, a union was
held to have violated section 8(b) (1) (A), as well as section 8(b) (2),
where it attempted to cause the employer to discharge employees
for having exeicised their lawful right to apply directly to the company
for employment, rather than the union's hiring hall in conformity
with the union's requii ement that members seeking employment
77 Local No 3887, Steelmotkere (Stephenson Brick d Tile), 129 NLRB 6
78 United Mine Workers, District 31 (Blue Ridge Coal Corp ), 129 NLRB 146, Highmall
Truckdrivers, Local 107 (Ruts d Co ), 130 NLRB 943, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
d Enginemen (Phelps Dodge Corp ), 130 NLRB 1147
79 Local No 3887, SteetworLers (Stephenson Brick cl Tile), above See also Checker
Taal Co , 131 NLRB No 96
so Chccker Taxi Co. above
a United Mine Workers, District 31 (Blue Ridge Coal Corp ), above
aa Local 611, St Louis Offset Printing Union, 130 NLRB 324