INTERNATIONAL BROTH., ETC. v. Morton

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (the Union) appeals from an interlocutory order granting a preliminary injunction barring it "from distributing, publishing, disseminating or mailing out any confidential employer-employee information * * *." We reverse and remand.

The Union is attempting to organize the clerical and technical employees of Alabama Power Company. As part of this organizing campaign, the Union distributed handbills containing allegedly confidential salary information. The plaintiff is one of the employees whose salary was disclosed. She filed a class action…