Town Can Prohibit Union's Inflatable Rat Display, Appeals Court Rules

Route Fifty: The town of Grand Chute, Wisconsin did not gnaw into a labor union's right to free expression when it barred the group from placing a 12-foot-tall inflatable rat in front of a construction site nearly five years ago, a U.S. appeals court has ruled.

Construction and General Laborers’ Local Union No. 330 placed the "Scabby the Rat" figure on a road median across from a car dealership in 2014, after learning that a masonry company doing work there was paying wages and benefits that were below the union's standards.

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