Did the city's action add restrictions where Congress intended ...

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Did the city's action add restrictions where Congress intended that none should exist?

Question 2

Summarize the essential facts of the case.

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Answer to Question 1

Yes. Congress intended that the parties to a labor dispute should be free to use their economic weapons against one another. The city's action interfered with the normal bargaining self-help processes contemplated by Congress by imposing a durational limit on the exercise of self-help.

Answer to Question 2

The city conditioned the taxicab franchise renewal on the settlement of the employer's labor dispute with the union. Note: the Supreme Court's Machinists, Lodge 76 v. Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission decision, precludes state regulation of conduct that Congress intended to be unregulated.