{"id":22467,"date":"2014-10-30T09:54:22","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T13:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=22467"},"modified":"2014-10-30T09:54:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T13:54:22","slug":"federal-judge-wont-trap-the-union-rat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=22467","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge won’t trap the union rat"},"content":{"rendered":"

It may only be New Yorkers who get that headline. I’m a New Yorker, so I smiled when I saw this, from the New York Law Journal:<\/h4>\n

Judge Declines to Stop Union’s Use of Rat in Protest<\/a><\/em><\/h4>\n

Eastern District Judge Joseph Bianco said federal law divested him of jurisdiction to impose an injunction, and that putting large inflatable rats at work sites…<\/em><\/p>\n

A judge refused to ban a union from using inflatable rats to broadcast its alleged objections to an employer’s hiring of a supervisor who previously ran a non-union business.<\/em><\/p>\n

After Microtech Contracting Corporation, an asbestos abatement contractor, hired a supervisor with a past of non-union work, Asbestos, Lead, and Hazardous Waste Laborers’ Local 78 began displaying the rat at work sites.<\/em><\/p>\n

The contractor sued to stop the tactic, but Eastern District Judge Joseph Bianco…denied the contractor’s request for a preliminary injunction on Monday.<\/em><\/p>\n

If you’ve never encountered the union rat, here, thanks to Wikipedia, are a series of pics.<\/a> In person, they’re both intimidating (they are gigantic and teeter in a breeze) and endearing (for those of us who love unions), at the same time.<\/p>\n

P.S. I’ve never seen the one with the cute pink belly. Makes me want to tickle it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It may only be New Yorkers who get that headline. I’m a New Yorker, so I smiled when I saw this, from the New York Law Journal: Judge Declines to Stop Union’s Use of Rat in Protest Eastern District Judge … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[650,436,732,310],"class_list":["post-22467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-first-amendment-rights","tag-law-and-the-courts","tag-right-to-unionize","tag-role-of-judges"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t