The firm successfully defended a general contractor’s right to prevent illegal trespassing by union business agents on a private construction job in San Diego. The union filed unfair labor practice charges against the firm’s client when its union business agents were denied access to a jobsite and then locked in the jobsite fence to await police assistance. The Office of General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board agreed the charges should be dismissed because the business agents did not have the right to access the interior of the construction jobsite, especially given the posted no-access and no-solicitation rules.
(N.L.R.B.G.C., No. 21-CA-35568) 2003 WL 22927217 (August 28, 2003)
Counsel: Chad T. Wishchuk