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...firms could act together on a shutout, since they do not bargain as a unit (U.S. Steel acts as the front man for the industry). But legal experts saw no clear reason why the steel industry could not legally act together on a shutout to protect itself, and the NLRB turned down the union's request because it had made no formal charges...
...small army of legal eagles who defend, protect, advise and counsel the Teamsters. In all they total 120-so many that they even have an organization of their own: the National Conference of Teamster Lawyers, which meets periodically, discusses such items as the legal ramifications of hot cargoes, NLRB decisions, right-to-work laws and at its latest session last month in California a timely new topic: "Hints to the union attorney relating to legislative investigations of the labor union and its officers...
WORST UNION YEAR in recent times is shaping up, owing to labor scandals and recession. In NLRB organizing elections among U.S. workers since last July, only 58% voted for unionization, v. 63% in fiscal 1957 and 83% in fiscal...
Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justice William O. Douglas dissented. (Justice Hugo Black had disqualified himself.) Congress, argued Warren, set up the NLRB consciously as a device to "balance the competing interests of employee, union and management." For state courts to offer additional remedies could well destroy the delicate balance and frustrate the NLRB's decisions. Moreover, if non-strikers were encouraged to sue in state courts, labor unions would be under the threat of "staggering" financial losses, would have to be so cautious they might end up concluding that even federally protected union activities, i.e., peaceable striking...
Vagueness v. Vulnerability. The second case was brought by Marcos Gonzales, a machinist living in San Francisco. In 1950 Gonzales got into a quarrel with International Association of Machinists officials and was expelled. In plain violation of NLRB rules the I.A.M. hiring hall refused to refer him to another job. The California courts gave Gonzales $7,500 in back pay, $2,500 in punitive damages, and the Supreme Court upheld the awards...