Chicago Carpenters Union Wins Free Speech Case - 02/06/08

By Doug Cunningham

Chicago’s Carpenters union has won an important free speech case. A judge reversed a $2.3 million judgment against the union for distributing a leaflet that used a humorous limerick to call the Maki company "crappy". Travis Ketterman is the attorney representing the Chicago Carpenters union.

[Ketterman]: “Had that verdict stood, it really would have been an erosion of workers' rights, it would have been an erosion of the union's rights to publicize these disputes."