Legal Opinion
Bayside Enterprises, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 11, 1977No. 75-1267PublishedCited by 113 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stevens
The petitioners, collectively described as “Bayside,” are three affiliated corporations operating a large, vertically integrated poultry business in Maine. The question they present is whether six of their employees, who truck poultry feed from their feedmill to 119 farms on which their chickens are being raised, are “agricultural laborers” and therefore not covered by the National Labor Relations Act.
After a few preliminary talks, Bayside refused to bargain with the union representing these drivers on the ground that they were not “employees” within the meaning of the Act. The union’s…
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