National Labor Relations Board v. Beth Israel Hospital

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

Respondent, Beth Israel Hospital, is a major non-profit hospital of national reputation in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1975, the hospital had the following rule:

“Hospital employees who want to solicit other employees for the Union or other causes may do so when they are not on their own working times, but only in two well-defined locations of the Hospital:

1) Employee-only areas — employee locker rooms and certain adjacent rest rooms; and

2) Cafeteria and coffee shop.

In the locker areas literature may be offered. In the cafeteria and coffee shop, conversations may…