Section 26 Retail Store Employees Union (1980)?Limits of Product Boycott Doctrine

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The Tree Fruits decision—NLRB v. Fruit & Vegetable Packers & Warehousemen, Local 760 (Tree Fruits), 377 U.S. 58 (1964)—established that unions could picket to discourage the purchase of one or more struck products distributed by a secondary but did not establish the limits of such picketing when a boycott would cut off all trade with the secondary. In NLRB v. Retail Store Employees Union, Local 1001, 447 U.S. 607 (1980), the Supreme Court resolved this issue and decided that picketing aimed at a total or substantial boycott of a secondary violates NLRA §...