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Qualifying the Expansive Interpretation of the Publicity Proviso

NCJ Number
97652
Journal
Labor Law Journal Volume: 36 Issue: 1 Dated: (January 1985) Pages: 28-34
Author(s)
G Morales
Date Published
1985
Length
7 pages
Annotation
This article reveals the courts' and the National Labor Relations Board's interpretation of the publicity proviso during the first two decades after its enactment in 1959 and identifies the more recent trend to limit its scope.
Abstract
The publicity proviso to the secondary boycott prohibition provisions of the National Labor Relations Act on its face protects publicity, rather than picketing, for the purpose of truthfully advising the public that a 'product' or 'products' are produced by an employer with whom the labor organization has a primary dispute and are 'distributed' by another employer. In the Lohman Sales Company Case, the board held that the fact that the company was not a manufacturer, but rather a wholesaler or distributor, did not prevent application of the proviso. The board continued its liberal interpretation of the reach of the proviso in the cases of Middle South Broadcasting and Great Western Broadcasting. In this latter case, the board rejected KXTV's argument that it was not a producer of products distributed by merchants; the Ninth Circuit Court enforced the board's order. The board dealt more directly with the interpretation of 'distributed by another employer' in Sakowitz, Inc., Pet, Inc., and Edward J. Bartolo Corporation. Sakowitz probably represented the extreme of the board's liberality; the courts rejected the board's continued trend in Pet and DeBartolo. Finally, in Delta Airlines, the board and the court agreed that the proviso protects only publicity that falls within the protected purpose. Included are 16 notes.

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