Shared Writing: Secondary Picketing

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This exercise is based on You Be the Judge 5.2.⁶³

The employees of Pepsi-Cola were legally on strike. In an attempt to put pressure on their employer, they set up secondary pickets. As well as picketing their employer's premises, the employees also picketed (i) stores that sold Pepsi-Cola, in an effort to disrupt the delivery of the employer's products and to discourage people from buying those products, (ii) a hotel where replacement workers were staying, and (iii) houses belonging to the employer's managers, where they chanted slogans, screamed insults, and threatened bodily harm.

Should the courts allow secondary picketing? If so, under what conditions and with what restrictions, if any?

63. Pepsi-Cola Canada Beverages (West) Ltd v RWDSU, Local 558 (2002) 208 DLR (4th) 385 (SCC).