Section 22 Ambulatory Picketing

• Library: Employer-Employee Law 2008

Ambulatory picketing generally describes picketing against trucking concerns as they attempt to make deliveries or pick up merchandise at a neutral site. It is usually brief and unanticipated by the neutral employer. The Moore Dry Dock Co. rules—In re Sailors’ Union of the Pacific (Moore Dry Dock Co.),
92 N.L.R.B. 547 (1950), see §12.19, supra—apply to this type of picketing. But the third rule of Moore Dry Dock Co.—that the picketing be limited to places reasonably close to the location of the situs—has been interpreted to require picketing as close as possible to the primary’s vehicles. Typically, this requires that unions seek to picket “between the headlights.” Local Union No. 612, Int’l Bhd. of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousement & Helpers of Am., 211 N.L.R.B. 608 (1974). To meet this requirement, unions must request permission from the neutral to enter its premises to picket the primary’s vehicle, and only when that permission is denied may they picket at the entrance to the neutral’s...