balloon rats gonzo ?

   anti scab demo .....


"nothing  is more effective 
at getting the public's attention 
than a giant inflatable rat"

enter the fedfucks .....


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"Towering rat balloons
some as tall as 30 feet
have
been used by unions 
for years
 to call attention to
companies employing
 nonunion labor"


"Now, however,
 the giant inflatable rat's days 
may be
numbered"

 "As lawsuits by employers 
fighting the use of
                 the rat
 at their job sites 
pile up and move deeper
through the court system
 by way of appeals
 many say
that one of these cases
 could end up 
in front of the
Supreme Court"

" Two of the cases 
that are among 
the furthest along 
in
the appeals process 
may signal the death knell 
for the
rat"

 "In The Ranches at Mount Sinai 
       v. 
Laborers Eastern
Region Organizing Fund 
and 
Concrete Structures 
       v.
Laborers Eastern 
Region Organizing Fund
 an
administrative law judge
 ruled in a single judgment
that the union's use 
of an inflatable rat 
at a job site
constituted unlawful picketing"

"As with many of these cases
 the union in the case
argued that the inflatable rat 
was a prop to get the
public's attention 
and thus should be protected 
under
the First Amendment"

" Employers countered 
that using the
rat
 which is a well-known symbol
 of anti-union labor
along with fliers
 is the same thing 
as picketing and
thus should be restricted as such"

"The union has appealed the decision
 which will go
before the National Labor Relations Board 
within the
next several months"

" But the outlook appears grim 
for
the rat
 In the NLRB¹s May report
 on case developments
General Counsel Arthur Rosenfeld 
discussed how 
the board had found 
that the use of the rat
 constituted
unlawful picketing"

"This is the potential 
Pied Piper case
It will be an opportunity 
for the National
Labor Relations Board
 to decide 
that all uses of the
rat would constitute picketing" 


"Even if the rat is exterminated....
 there are
other animals ....
 skunks  toads  cockroachs ...etc etc 
        plenty of other animals."

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