03/19/69 Office and Professional v. National Labor

Burger, McGowan and Leventhal, Circuit Judges.

1. 29 U.S.C. § 141 et seq. (1964). All section numbers refer to this Act.

2. NLRB v. C & C Plywood Corp., 385 U.S. 421, 17 L. Ed. 2d 486, 87 S. Ct. 559 (1967), and NLRB v. Acme Indus. Co., 385 U.S. 432, 87 S. Ct. 565, 17 L. Ed. 2d 495 (1967), have been read as affirming Board jurisdiction even in cases where there is a mandatory and binding arbitration clause. See, e.g., NLRB v. Huttig Sash & Door Co., 377 F.2d 964 (8th Cir. 1967), and NLRB v. Scam Instrument Corp., 394 F.2d 884 (7th Cir. 1968), cert. denied, 393 U.S.980, 89 S. Ct. 449, 21 L. Ed. 2d 441, 37 U.S.L.W. 3209 (No. 554, Dec. 9, 1968).

3. 353 U.S. 448, 77 S. Ct. 912, 1 L. Ed. 2d 972 (1957).

4. United Steelworkers v. American Mfg. Co., 363 U.S. 564, 4 L. Ed. 2d 1403, 80 S. Ct. 1343 (1960); United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co., 363 U.S. 574, 4 L. Ed. 2d 1409, 80 S. Ct. 1347 (1960); United Steelworkers v. Enterprise Wheel & Car Corp., 363 U.S. 593, 4 L. Ed. 2d 1424, 80 S. Ct. 1358 (1960).

5. Employer directs us particularly to the analysis of Board Member Brown in his concurring opinion in Cloverleaf Div. of Adams Dairy Co., 147 NLRB 1410, 1421 (1964).

6. See, e.g., Ordman, The Arbitrator and the NLRB, The Arbitrator, The NLRB, and The Courts, Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting National Academy of Arbitrators, 47 at 55-56 (1967). Other commentators also mention this, at 78 and 181-82.

7. Cloverleaf Div. of Adams Dairy Co., 147 NLRB 1410, 1416 (1964); see also C & S Industries, 158 NLRB 454, 459-60 (1966); Puerto Rico Tel. Co., 149 NLRB 950, 967-68 (1964), modified, Puerto Rico Tel. Co. v. NLRB, 359 F.2d 983 (1st Cir. 1966).

8. Vickers, Inc., 153 NLRB 561 (1965); Flintkote Co., 149 NLRB 1561 (1964); Bemis Bros. Bag Co., 143 NLRB 1311 (1963); Montgomery Ward & Co., 137 NLRB 418 (1962); see also LeRoy Mach. Co., 147 NLRB 1431 (1964).

9. See e.g., Scam Instrument Corp., 163 NLRB #39 (March 12, 1967), at 11, enforced, 394 F.2d 884 (7th Cir. 1968), cert. denied, 393 U. S. 980, 89 S. Ct. 449, 21 L. Ed. 2d 441, 37 U.S.L.W. 3209 (No. 554, Dec. 9, 1968); Huttig Sash & Door Co., 154 NLRB 811, 813 (1965); enforced, 377 F.2d 964 (8th Cir. 1967; Puerto Rico Tel. Co., supra note 7, at 967. See also PPG Industries, 172 NLRB #61, at 10-11 (July 3, 1968); C & S Industries, 158 NLRB 454, (1966).

10. See, e.g., Century Papers, 155 NLRB 358, 361 (1965); Huttig Sash & Door Co., supra note 9, at 816-17; Smith Cabinet Mfg. Co., 147 NLRB 1506, 1508 (1964).

11. See, e.g., Scam Instrument Corp., supra note 9, at 9; PPG Industries, supra note 9, at 11; Gravenslund Opr. Co., 168 NLRB #72, at 4 (Dec. 1, 1967); American Fire Apparatus Co., 160 NLRB 1318, 1323, enforced, 380 F.2d 1005 (8th Cir. 1967); Adelson, Inc., 163 NLRB #53, at 5 (March 17, 1967); W.P. Ihrie & Sons, 165 NLRB #2, at 5 (June 5, 1967); C & S Industries, supra note 9, at 460; Cloverleaf Div. of Adams Dairy, supra note 7, at 1415-17.

12. Univis, Inc., 169 NLRB #18 (Jan. 12, 1968); Unit Drop Forge Div. Eaton Yale & Towne, Inc., 171 NLRB #73 (May 24, 1968); Cloverleaf Div. of Adams Dairy Co., supra note 7.

13. Unit Drop Forge Div. Eaton Yale & Towne, Inc., supra note 12.

14. The only related matter was the payment of at least the statistical clerk rate for work done outside of the Grand Lodge. This term did, however, follow a much earlier (July 26, 1966) employee proposal which, had it not been rejected, would have given at least the statistical clerk rate to those "assigned to audit."

15. International Union, United Auto., Aerospace and Agricultural Implements Workers of America [General Motors] v. NLRB, 127 U.S. App. D.C. 97, 381 F.2d 265, cert. denied, 389 U.S. 857, 19 L. Ed. 2d 122, 88 S. Ct. 82 (1967).

16. International Tel. & Tel. Corp. v. NLRB, 382 F.2d 366, at 373 (3d Cir. 1967), cert. denied, 389 U.S. 1039, 19 L. Ed. 2d 829, 88 S. Ct. 777 (1967).

17. NLRB v. Universal Packaging Corp., 361 F.2d 384, at 388 (1st Cir. 1966).

18. NLRB v. Seven-Up Bottling Co., 344 U.S. 344, 73 S. Ct. 287, 97 L. Ed. 377 (1953).

19. Fibreboard Paper Products Corp. v. NLRB (supra) 379 U.S. at 216.

20. Franks Bros. Co. v. NLRB, 321 U.S. 702, 704, 88 L. Ed. 1020, 64 S. Ct. 817 (1944).

21. Phelps-Dodge Corp. v. NLRB (supra) 313 U.S. at 194.

22. Perhaps the Union, after bargaining, will agree to a new classification -- provided the employees stay within the unit.

23. The contract in C & S Industries also specifically said that there would be no change of payment without negotiation and Union consent.

24. It would be a nice question whether C & S Industries, supra note 7, rests on a finding of violation of an express or implied provision of the agreement.