Section 30 Hot Cargo Agreements

• Library: Employer-Employee Law 2008

Any activity, including picketing, aimed at forcing an employer to join a labor organization or employer’s organization or to enter into an agreement that is prohibited by NLRA § 8(e), 29 U.S.C. § 158(e), is proscribed in NLRA § 8(b)(4)(A).

It shall be an unfair labor practice for any labor organization and any employer to enter into any contract or agreement, express or implied, whereby such employer ceases or refrains or agrees to cease or refrain from handling, using, selling, transporting or otherwise dealing in any of the products of any other employer, or to cease doing business with any other person, and any contract or agreement entered into heretofore or hereafter containing such an agreement shall be to such extent unenforceable and void: Provided, That nothing in this subsection [(e)] shall apply to an agreement between a labor organization and an employer in the construction industry relating to the contracting or subcontracting of work to be done at the site of the construction, alteration, painting, or repair of a building, structure or other work: Provided further, That for the purposes of this subsection [(e)] and subsection [8](b)(4)(B) . . . the terms “any employer”, “any person...