Answer to Question 1
The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) prohibits certain kinds of picketing under Sections 8(b)(4 ) and 8(b)(7). The NLRA protects peaceful picketing. However, under Section 7, violent picketing, mass picketing as well as threatening conducted by picketers are not protected. Section 8(b)(7 ) regulates picketing by unions for organizational or recognitional purposes while Section 8(b)(4 ) deals with secondary boycotts. Section 8(b)(7 ) was added to the NLRA by the 1959 Landrum-Griffin Act which prohibits recognitional picketing by an uncertified union in certain situations.
Answer to Question 2
a