Supreme Court Blocks Access to Company Property for Agricultural Union Organizing Absent Just Compensation

In an opinion authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court yesterday issued a ruling that should result in a decrease in union organizing efforts for agricultural workers. In a 6-to-3 ruling in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, the Court ruled that California’s law permitting union organizing access to private agricultural land constitutes a per se physical taking under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, regardless of if it is temporary, and therefore just compensation is required....
By: Fisher Phillips

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