NLRB: Teamsters violated labor law in Bud boycott

ST. LOUIS -- The National Labor Relations Board said Thursday that Teamsters violated federal labor law when they picketed Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc.

The union violated a law prohibiting pickets against companies not directly involved in a labor contract dispute, said Ralph Tremain, director of the NLRB office in St. Louis. The Teamsters displayed signs calling for a boycott near Anheuser-Busch headquarters several times and will be asked to stop such activity.

Local Teamsters president Dan McKay said workers would quit such activity if it is illegal. The NLRB is still investigating four other charges Anheuser-Busch filed against the Teamsters. The brewer did not immediately comment on the matter.