⁍ A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will hear oral arguments.


⁍ Members of the San Antonio Symphony did not have the right to distribute leaflets to patrons at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, where they perform, because the venue does not employ them.


– Symphony musicians in San Antonio are taking their fight for better pay and working conditions to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. The American Federation of Musicians is challenging a 2019 ruling by the National Labor Relations Board that said members of the San Antonio Symphony did not have the right to distribute leaflets to patrons at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, where they perform, because the venue does not employ them, reports Westlaw Today. The musicians say the center is a private property owned by the symphony and therefore not under their right to engage in union activities. A three-judge panel of the DC Circuit will hear telephonic oral arguments in the challenge, which said members of the San Antonio Symphony in Texas did not have the right to distribute leaflets to patrons at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, where they perform, because the venue does not employ them. The National Labor Relations Board ruled that workers do not have the right to picket and engage in union activities on private property where they work but that is not owned by their employer.



Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/employment-nlrb/dc-circuit-to-consider-if-contract-workers-can-organize-on-property-where-they-work-idUSL1N2H7283