NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD v. Braswell Motor Freight Lines
| Decision Date | 06 August 1954 |
| Docket Number | No. 14663.,14663. |
| Citation | 213 F.2d 208 |
| Parties | NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD v. BRASWELL MOTOR FREIGHT LINES. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Fifth Circuit |
George J. Bott, Gen. Counsel, A. Norman Somers, Asst. Gen. Counsel, David P. Findling, Associate Gen. Counsel, James R. Webster, Fort Worth, Tex., Samuel M. Singer, Peter Bauer, Attys., National Labor Relations Board, Washington, D. C., for petitioner.
Cecil A. Morgan, Sam R. Sayers, Morgan & Shropshire, Rawlings, Sayers, Scurlock & Eidson, Fort Worth, Tex., for respondent.
Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and BORAH and RIVES, Circuit Judges.
Insisting that the order requiring refund of dues was not within the authority of the Board and ought not to, indeed may not, be enforced, respondent in its motion for rehearing urges upon us that "the reasons assigned in N. L. R. B. v. Parker Bros., Inc., 5 Cir. 209 F.2d 278", on the basis of which we decided this case, do not, under its facts, sustain the order in it.
Pointing out that in that case there was a closed shop contract and we held that the requisite coercion and domination to sustain the refund order as to dues check-off were present there, while in this case there was no closed shop contract and we have held that the record does not support the board's finding that the employees were in any manner coerced into joining the independent union and paying dues to it, respondent insists that paragraph 2(b) of the order requiring refund of dues and our decree enforcing it are without foundation.
Upon further reflection, we agree with the respondent that this is so.
The Board has wide discretion under Sec. 10(c), National Labor Relations Act, as amended, 29 U.S.C.A. § 160(c) to effectuate the policies of the Act and to choose means by which the effects of unfair labor practices shall be expunged, but it has no authority to punish an employer for wrongful conduct. Republic Steel Corp. v. N. L. R. B., 311 U.S. 7, 11, 12, 61 S.Ct. 77, 85 L.Ed. 6. It may, in the case of a closed shop arrangement illegally imposed, order reimbursement of dues when "intended to remove the effects of this unfair labor practice by restoring to the employees what would not have been taken from them if the Company had not contravened the Act". Virginia Electric & Power Co. v. N. L. R. B., 319 U.S. 533, 544, 63 S.Ct. 1214, 1220, 87 L.Ed. 1568. It has no such authority when, as here, there is no closed shop contract, the employees...
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