Opinion ID: 367275
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Heading Rank: 3

Heading: communications to pilots assn.:

Text: 29 Finally, Anchortank argues that the letters and communications from the union to the Pilots Association form a separate § 8(b)(4) violation. Because we have determined that the dock must be considered part of the primary situs of Anchortank for the purposes of 8(b)(4) of the Act, Anchortank's final contention must fail also. A striking union may supplement its picketing of the premises with non-situs requests to honor the picket line directed to the same employees who ordinarily would encounter the pickets. Interborough News Co., 90 NLRB 2135, 2149-2150. These appeals will not constitute secondary activity if they are in furtherance of the primary strike and are limited to requests that the employees refuse to perform services at the primary employer's premises. Teamster Local No. 379, 211 NLRB 629, 633 (1974). In the instant case, the request to the pilots was to honor the picket line by not bringing in nor taking out vessels for Anchortank at Dock 16. Because these requests accomplished no more than the picket line and were intended to further the primary strike rather than to encourage the pilots to refuse to perform all piloting services regardless of destination or to bring pressure to bear on Anchortank, we hold that such non-situs appeals do not violate § 8(b)(4). 30 Therefore, because Dock 16 is not a common situs and the ocean-going vessels arrived and departed from Dock 16 in furtherance of Anchortank's normal business operations, and because the off-situs communications were in furtherance of the union's primary activity, we hold that the union's picketing of the dock and ramp did not violate § 8(b)(4) and accordingly affirm the Board's dismissal of the instant complaint. 31 AFFIRMED.