Janitors’ 2014 Picketing Protected by Labor Law, NLRB Rules

A janitorial services firm and its subcontractor illegally retaliated against workers who picketed at another company’s building where they worked, the National Labor Relations Board ruled.

The NLRB on Tuesday ruled that the janitors’ protest against Preferred Building Services Inc. was covered by federal labor law, rejecting arguments that their picketing had an unlawful objective that would deny them the protection of the National Labor Relations Act.

The NLRB ruled in the case on remand from the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which sent the case back to the board in 2021. The appeals court held that ...