Opinion ID: 1281454
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: First Court of Appeal Opinion in 8 ALRB 87

Text: On the grower's petition for review, the Second District, Division Four issued an opinion ( Sam Andrews' Sons v. Agricultural Labor Relations Bd. (1984) 162 Cal. App.3d 923 [208 Cal. Rptr. 812] [the first Court of Appeal decision in 8 ALRB 87]) [4] upholding the unfair labor practice finding but vacating the access order as overbroad because it granted the union an unlimited right of access to the labor camp. The court held that (1) the ALRA was intended to provide only a qualified statutory right of access to the grower's property [5] ( Agricultural Labor Relations Bd. v. Superior Court ( Pandol & Sons ) (1976) 16 Cal.3d 392 [128 Cal. Rptr. 183, 546 P.2d 687]), based on similar National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) precedent defining a statutory right of access and embodied in Labor Board v. Babcock & Wilcox Co. (1956) 351 U.S. 105 [100 L.Ed. 975, 76 S.Ct. 679]; (2) the statutory standard under the Babcock & Wilcox rule permitted access to a grower's property where there were no reasonable, practical and effective alternative means of communication; but that (3) the union had sufficiently demonstrated there were no reasonable, practical or effective means of communication other than access to the workers at the camp, particularly in view of the grower's access policies and apparent hostility to attempts to communicate. The court further held that, even if there were a right of access under the federal or California Constitution, a matter which it expressly declined to decide, a First Amendment right of access is not absolute but is subject to the owner's right to make reasonable rules to prevent unnecessary interference with its business activity. ( Petersen v. Talisman Sugar Corporation (5th Cir.1973) 478 F.2d 73, 82.) The Court of Appeal judgment vacated the Board's order insofar as it included no limitations as to time or number of organizers, and remanded the case to the Board with directions to reframe its order to require reasonable access to the camp and to specify in detail appropriate times and numbers of organizers.