Question: Union workers are striking at Cheesey, a restaurant, forming picket lines in front of the...

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Question: Union workers are striking at Cheesey, a restaurant, forming picket lines in front of the restaurant during the lunch and dinner hours but at no other times. The union members chant slogans denouncing their wages and working conditions, urging diners not to enter. There is no violence, but the picketers cause many prospective customers to stay away, and Cheesey suffers a substantial drop in business. The restaurant files a charge with the NLRB, claiming that the union has committed a ULP by (1) deliberately harming its business and (2) engaging in a secondary boycott. Who will win? Strategy: Striking workers are allowed to picket. May they urge non-union members to stay out of the business? May they prohibit others from entering? Secondary boycotts are illegal. Is this one? Result: Striking workers may urge the public not to cross the picket line. The union may not use violence to keep people out, but this union has not done so. This is not a secondary boycott, which is a picket line established at a different company that does business with the employer. The company's loss of business is one possible-and legal-consequence of a strike. The union has committed no ULP.