International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reiniforcing Iron Workers, Local 229, AFL-CIO, Petitioner v. National Labor Relations Board

  1. May 24, 2021

    Justices Turn Away Ironworkers' Strike Limit Challenge

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined a review petition by an Ironworkers local asserting that a federal labor law provision barring protesting unions from inviting neutral workers to join the picket line violates the First Amendment.

  2. April 15, 2021

    NLRB Says Justices Shouldn't Rethink Labor Law Strike Limit

    The National Labor Relations Board urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to take up the Iron Workers' challenge to a federal labor law provision barring unions from inviting neutral workers to join strikes, saying the provision does not violate the First Amendment.

  3. February 12, 2021

    Ironworkers Union Asks Supreme Court To Lift Protest Limits

    A National Labor Relations Act provision barring unions from inviting neutral workers to join protests illegally restricts speech under modern First Amendment law, an ironworkers union local argued in a petition urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider a 70-year-old ruling.

  4. September 11, 2020

    Divided 9th Circ. Stands By NLRB Strike Invite Ruling

    The Ninth Circuit on Friday let stand a panel decision upholding a National Labor Relations Board ruling that an ironworkers' union local violated federal labor law by inciting neutral construction workers to join a strike, declining to rehear the dispute en banc over dissent from six judges.