Peters v. South Chicago Community Hospital

Per Curiam :

The question presented by these two cases consolidated for review is whether the public policy of this State prohibits employees of a hospital from striking and members of a hospital labor union from peacefully picketing a hospital.

On February 26, 1968, the circuit court of Cook County entered an order the effect of which permits Hospital Employees Labor Program, a labor union, to organize a strike by its member employees of South Chicago Community Hospital and Norwegian-American Hospital and to peacefully picket these hospitals. The First District Appellate Court held that a…