International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 501 v. National Labor Relations Board

The question which to me seems decisive is whether Patterson’s picketing constituted only a “secondary” boycott. This is not analyzed to any extent in the opinion; there is only an acceptance of the premise that a primary boycott must be against Langer, the employer of the electricians. Then appear, at least by implication, the subordinate premises that boycotts against Giorgi and Deltorto are against not “the employer who alone is a party to the dispute,” but “some third party who has no concern in it.” And there is a suggestion of a different case where “the work of the employer may be so…