Nonemployee Union Organizers and Access to Private Property: Lechmere, Inc. v. NLRB

Abstract

INTRODUCTION|Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act ("NLRA") provides that "[e]mployees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection." Section 8(a)(1) of the NLRA protects an employee's section 7 rights by prohibiting an employer's attempts "to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in [section 7]."...