Union Has Statutory Protection To Picket Supermarket.

Picketing at a Supermarket Entrance

The California Supreme Court ruled on union picketing laws in front of a supermarket entrance and held:  “[T]he supermarket’s privately owned entrance area is not a public forum under the California Constitution’s liberty of speech provision. For this reason, a union’s picketing activities do not have state constitutional protection. Those picketing activities do have statutory protection, however, under the Moscone Act [Code of Civil Procedure section 527.3] and [Labor Code] section 1138. . .”  Ralphs Grocery Company v. United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 8  December 27, 2012) 55 Cal.4th 1083.