Retail Store Employees Union v. National Labor Relations Board

The purpose of section 8(b)(4)(ii)(B) of the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 158(b)(4)(ii)(B) is to protect neutral employers, not concerned in a dispute between another employer and a union, from the pressures generated by that conflict. NLRB v. Steel Fabricators Local 810 (Sid Harvey), 460 F.2d 1, 5 (2d Cir. 1972), cert. denied, 409 U.S. 1041, 93 S.Ct. 527, 34 L.Ed.2d 491 (1972); Miami Newspaper Pressmen’s Local No. 46 v. NLRB, 116 U.S. App.D.C. 192, 197, 322 F.2d 405, 410 (1963). Congress recognized that absent such protection neutral secondary employers frequently become “the…