General Motors Corporation v. NLRB
Citation | 303 F.2d 428 |
Decision Date | 08 June 1962 |
Docket Number | No. 14786.,14786. |
Parties | GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Respondent. |
Court | United States Courts of Appeals. United States Court of Appeals (6th Circuit) |
Harry S. Benjamin, Jr., Detroit, Mich. (Aloysius F. Power, Gen. Counsel, Harry S. Benjamin, Jr., Eugene L. Hartwig, Attys., Detroit, Mich., on the brief), for General Motors Corp.
Melvin J. Welles, Washington, D. C. (Stuart Rothman, Gen. Counsel, Dominick L. Manoli, Associate Gen. Counsel, Marcel Mallet-Prevost, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Melvin J. Welles, Earle W. Putnam, Attys., N.L.R.B., Washington, D. C., on the brief). for National Labor Relations Bd.
Harold A. Cranefield, Gen. Counsel, John A. Fillion, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Detroit, Mich., Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., John Silard, Attys., Washington, D. C., on the brief, amicus curiae for United Automobile Workers.
Before CECIL, WEICK and O'SULLIVAN, Circuit Judges.
The sole question in this case is whether or not an "agency shop arrangement" is lawful under the National Labor Relations Act, as amended, so as to require an employer to bargain with a labor union with respect to including it in a collective bargaining agreement. 29 U.S.C.A. §§ 151-166, as amended.
The Union made a demand in writing that the employer bargain with respect to its proposal that the existing National Agreement between the parties be supplemented so as to require as a condition of continued employment that all employees not already members of the Union, and new employees hired thereafter at the employer's Indiana locations must pay to the Union within thirty days after the agreement or of their initial employment, whichever is later, a sum equal to the initiation fee charged members of each of Union's locals and monthly sums equal to the regular membership dues required of its locals' members at each location. This type of arrangement is called an "agency shop."
The National Agreement which the Union sought to supplement contained provisions creating a "union shop" which required all employees to become members of the Union within sixty days after the date of the agreement or of their employment and to pay initiation fees and membership dues uniformly required. These existing provisions with respect to the "union shop" did not apply however to employees "employed in any state which prohibits or otherwise makes unlawful, membership in a labor organization as a condition of employment." A state statute in Indiana known as the Indiana Right to Work Law makes void and unenforceable any agreement conditioning employment upon union membership. Burns' Indiana Statutes Ann. Section 40-2703.
The employer refused to bargain with the Union over this proposal on the ground that any agreement containing such a provision would be in violation of the National Labor Relations Act, as amended.
The Union filed with the National Labor Relations Board a charge of unfair labor practice against the employer which was based upon the refusal of the employer to bargain with respect to this proposal. The Board heard the complaint and issued an order upholding the validity of the "agency shop" and finding that the employer violated Section 8(a) (1) and (5) of the Act by refusing to bargain with the Union with respect to it. The employer has petitioned this Court for review of the order and the Board cross-petitioned for enforcement. The Union was granted leave to file a brief amicus curiae.
The pertinent provisions of the Act are as follows:
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