District 1199E, National Union of Hospital & Health Care Employees v. Johns Hopkins Hospital

This case arises out of a labor conflict between Johns Hopkins Hospital (Hopkins), a nonprofit, tax-exempt health care institution, and District 1199E (the Union), the collective bargaining representative for approximately 1,250 service and maintenance employees of the hospital. The single issue presented is whether the Maryland Anti-Injunction Act (the Act), Maryland Code (1957, 1979 Repl. Vol.), Art. 100, §§ 63-75, applies to nonprofit hospitals.

Enacted in 1935, the Act was modeled on the federal Norris-LaGuardia Act, 29 U.S.C.A. § 101 et seq. Its main purpose, like that of its federal…