LAW 529 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Picketing, Negotiation, Pepsis
20 Oct 2016
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Employees of pepsico, organized by the retail, wholesale and department store union in saskatchewan, went on strike. As part of their strike, the employees picketed at retail stores that sold pepsi products and at the homes of pepsi"s management. Pepsi successfully applied for an interlocutory injunction to prevent employees from picketing at the secondary locations. The supreme court of canada recognized picketing as freedom of expression, consistent with section 2 (b) of the charter of. Since the court found picketing to be ingrained in the charter, they declined to limit picketing based on location, although they did prohibit picketing at the homes of management. The court"s overall conclusion was that secondary picketing is legal as long as it is not tortious or criminal in nature and does not inflict undue hardship on the struck parties. The right to picket is now in the law, protected in the charter, any legislation cannot ban picketing.
