Hendrix v. Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen of North America

This is an expedited appeal from a decision of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri denying an injunction against picketing activities of the respondent, Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, AFL-CIO, District Local 340 (hereafter union). The injunction had been requested by the Regional Director for the Seventeenth Region of the National Labor Relations Board for and on behalf of the National Labor Relations Board (hereafter NLRB) under 29 U.S.C. § 160(7) (hereafter 10(7)) on the grounds that the picketing was for organizational…