Case: Labor Relations/Secondary Boycott (S.D.N.Y.)

Cosmopolitan Interior NY Corporation failed to prove that District Council 9 International Union of Painters and Allied Trades unlawfully threatened or coerced its clients to stop doing business with the painting company because it wasn’t a signatory to a labor contract, or to pressure it to recognize and bargain with DC 9, a federal district court in New York ruled. Cosmopolitan Interior alleged that DC 9 engaged in illegal secondary activity when it set up an inflatable rat and handed out leaflets suggesting painters were being paid below area standards outside various Cosmopolitan Interior job sites, among other things. The ...