The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a district judge’s order that two locals of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union pay damages to the National Labor Relations Board and an employer in connection with union picketing that turned violent at the Port of Longview, Wash., Metropolitan News-Enterprise reports.
However, the panel reversed a portion of the order that would have required the union to also pay damages to a railroad whose operations were disrupted, and to four law enforcement agencies whose officers were called out to remove protesters from train tracks, cutting $50,000 from the amount requested by the NLRB.
