United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers Local 3047 v. Hardin County

OPINION

McKEAGUE, Circuit Judge.

This case presents a challenge by numerous collective bargaining organizations to a Kentucky county’s so-called “right to work” ordinance. The Unions contend the ordinance is unenforceable because it is preempted by the National Labor Relations Act.

The district court awarded summary judgment to the unions, holding that the ordinance is preempted. The court recognized that the NLRA expressly excepts from preemption such right-to-work protections under “State law,” but held that the law of a State’s political subdivision is not “State law-” For the reasons that…