2021 Georgia Code
Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations
Chapter 6 - Labor Organizations and Labor Relations
Article 1 - General Provisions
§ 34-6-5. Interference With Public Ways of Travel, Transportation, or Conveyance by Mass Picketing Near Site of Labor Dispute

It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in mass picketing at or near any place where a labor dispute exists in such number or manner as to obstruct or interfere with or constitute a threat to obstruct or interfere with the entrance to or egress from any place of employment or the free and uninterrupted use of public roads, streets, highways, railroads, airports, or other ways of travel, transportation, or conveyance.

(Ga. L. 1947, p. 620, § 3.)

- Freedom of assembly, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. I, Sec. I, Para. IX.

Obstruction of, encroachment upon, or injuring public roads generally, § 32-6-1.

- For article, "State Court Injunctions in Labor Disputes," see 10 Ga. St. B. J. 559 (1974).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Staging location for pickets permitted.

- Trial court's order placing conditions on the use of a staging location for pickets, designed to control the potential for violence and traffic impediments, was held not to be an abuse of discretion. Union Camp Corp. v. Savannah Bldg. Trades Council, 257 Ga. 518, 361 S.E.2d 178 (1987).

Cited in Fleming v. Terminal Transp. Co., 222 Ga. 583, 151 S.E.2d 137 (1966).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 48 Am. Jur. 2d, Labor and Labor Relations, § 552 et seq.

- 51A C.J.S., Labor Relations, §§ 462 et seq., 467 et seq.

- Validity of statute or ordinance against picketing, 35 A.L.R. 1200; 108 A.L.R. 1119; 122 A.L.R. 1043; 125 A.L.R. 963; 130 A.L.R. 1303.

Parades by strikers, 47 A.L.R. 753.

Violation of injunction against unlawful picketing as affecting allowable scope of subsequent injunction, 73 A.L.R. 677.

Lawfulness of, or right to enjoin, picketing as affected by considerations relating to practical termination or inability to attain object of labor dispute, 122 A.L.R. 1292.

Legality of, and injunction against, peaceable picketing by labor union, of plant whose employees are represented by another union as statutory bargaining agent, 166 A.L.R. 185.

Right of third party in area picketed during labor dispute, who has no connection with the dispute, to relief against such picketing, 15 A.L.R.2d 1396.

Applicability of Norris-La Guardia Act and similar state statutes to injunction action by private complainant, 29 A.L.R.2d 323.

Right of labor union to strike, picket, or impose boycott to compel payment by employer of fine or other penalty, 32 A.L.R.2d 342.

Nonlabor picketing or boycott, 93 A.L.R.2d 1284.

Legality of peaceful labor picketing on private property, 10 A.L.R.3d 846.