Wesolowski v. Toledo Refining Co., L.L.C.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that union could be liable for hostile work environment, in part, because “the harassment was directly connected to a union-sponsored activity—the strike”
• affirming trial verdict that union was liable for picket line conduct— that created a hostile work environment—at employer’s premises
• stating “when the meaning of a statute is questionable, the statute should be given a sensible construction and construed to effectuate the underlying purposes of the law”
• considering whether employees who were not members of same protected group were “subjected to the same kind or intensity of harassment” in examining whether a causal nexus existed
• finding it relevant that white employees were not subjected to the same kind of harassment as black employees when analyzing the causal nexus element of a hostile work environment claim
• “[t]he offensive conduct does not necessarily have to transpire at the workplace in order for a juror reasonably to conclude that it created a hostile working environment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).