The federal labor board is asking a judge to bar Scabby the Rat, the inflatable union protest icon, from being used in picketing of three Staten Island supermarkets.
The National Labor Relations Board is seeking a temporary restraining order against Construction and General Building Laborers’ Local 79 that would bar all protests against the ShopRite stores for five days, including the use of inflatables. The NLRB is investigating whether the union’s protest is operating outside federal labor laws.
Scabby has been a frequent sight at union protests for several decades to call attention to labor disputes or the use of ...
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