accommodation
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 407 U.S. 539 - Central Hardware Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · 1972Most cited · 418 citing opinions
Babcock principle
Organization rights are granted to workers by the same authority, the National Government, that preserves property rights. Accommodation between the two must be obtained with as little destruction of one as is consistent with the maintenance of the other. The employer may not affirmatively interfere with organization; the union may not always insist that the employer aid organization. But when the inaccessibility of employees makes ineffective the reasonable attempts by nonemployees to communicate with them through the usual channels, the right to exclude from property has been required to yield to the extent needed to permit communication of information on the right to organize.
How often courts cite the case defining “accommodation”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “accommodation” — 415 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.