Arkansas High Court Bars Union From Protesting at Wal-Mart

Source: ABC News

By ANDREW DEMILLO,

A labor union was kept barred from protesting or demonstrating at Wal-Mart's stores and offices in Arkansas after the state's highest court on Thursday scaled back a judge's order prohibiting the group from entering the retail giant's property for anything other than shopping.

The Arkansas Supreme Court upheld a Benton County judge's trespassing order against the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, but modified the injunction to cover only activities such as picketing, demonstrations and flash mobs against the Bentonville-based company.

"We agree with the union that the circuit court's injunction and declaration encompassing all non-shopping activity or conduct is simply too broad," the court said in its ruling.

The union and its affiliate group, the Organization United for Respect at Wal-Mart, had argued that the National Labor Relations Board, not the Benton County judge, should have jurisdiction over the matter. Justices disagreed and noted that appellate courts in several other states have rejected that argument.

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