Union representatives and the management at Bathtub Brewing Company's have reached an impasse. Going forward, the union is planning an organized strike and other tactics to put pressure on management where it will be most effective. Union supporters are being encouraged to avoid purchasing Bathtub Brewing's products. Now union leaders have contacted a variety of stores that stock Bathtub Brewing's beer telling them union members and other supporters will stop shopping at any store that continues to carry Bathtub Brewing's beer until the dispute is resolved in the union's favor. This tactic against stores that carry Bathtub Brewing Company is called a primary boycott.

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A primary boycott is a boycott against a firm involved in a labor dispute. Thus, the action taken directly against Bathtub Brewing Company would be a primary boycott. However, the action against retail stores is a secondary boycott. A secondary boycott occurs when a union boycotts firms not directly involved in the labor dispute in an effort to persuade them to stop doing business with the firm that is the subject of the primary boycott. Secondary boycotts were declared illegal by the Taft-Hartley Act.

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