INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN'S ASS'N v. N.L.R.B.

No. 82-2281.

723 F.2d 963 (1983)

INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN'S ASSOCIATION, AFL-CIO; South Atlantic & Gulf Coast District, ILA, AFL-CIO; Locals 872 and 1273, ILA, AFL-CIO, Petitioners, v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Respondent. American Farm Bureau Federation, et al., Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided December 20, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles R. Goldburg, New York City, with whom Thomas W. Gleason and Ernest L. Mathews, Jr., New York City, were on the brief, for petitioners.

Susan L. Dolin, Atty., N.L.R.B., Washington, D.C., for respondent. Elliott Moore, Deputy Associate Gen. Counsel, John G. Elligers and Lawrence Jacob Song, Attys., N.L.R.B., Washington, D.C., were on brief, for respondent.

John J. Rademacher and C. David Mayfield, Washington, D.C., were on brief, for intervenors.

Before MIKVA and GINSBURG, Circuit Judges, and BAZELON, Senior Circuit Judge.


Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge MIKVA.

MIKVA, Circuit Judge:

The petitioners in this case (ILA or Union) have insisted on the right of their members to exercise a political protest by refusing to handle Russian ships and cargo. The current series of cases, of which this is one, arises from an effort to protest the Russian invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. As persistently as the Union has sought to claim this right of refusal, the National...

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