International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local Union No 323 v. National Labor Relations Board, AFL-CIO
| Decision Date | 31 October 1983 |
| Docket Number | No. 83-63,AFL-CIO,83-63 |
| Citation | 78 L.Ed.2d 326,104 S.Ct. 366,464 U.S. 950 |
| Parties | INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS, LOCAL UNION NO. 323, v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD |
| Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
On petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
The petition for writ of certiorari is denied.
After determining that one of its members was working in a supervisory capacity for a nonunion employer, Local No. 323 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) charged the employee with violating the IBEW constitution. That document provides that a member may be penalized for "[w]orking in the interest of any organization or cause which is detrimental to, or opposed to, the IBEW." The employee was fined and ultimately expelled from the union.
The National Labor Relations Board charged the Local with an unfair labor practice for violating § 8(b)(1)(B) of the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 158(b)(1)(B), which provides in pertinent part that "[i]t shall be an unfair labor practice for a labor organization or its agents—(1) to restrain or coerce . . . (B) an employer in the selection of his representatives for the purposes of collective bargaining or the adjustment of grievances." After a hearing, the administrative law judge found that the discipline was imposed for "working for a nonunion contractor," which in his view constituted unlawful coercion. On review, the Board adopted the administrative law judge's findings and conclusions. It issued a cease-and-desist order and ordered various affirmative relief.
The Board then successfully petitioned the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit for enforcement of its order. The court noted that in NLRB v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 73 (Chewelah Contractor's, Inc.), 621 F.2d 1035 (1980), the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit had held that a union does not violate § 8(b)(1)(B) by disciplining a member-supervisor for his employment with a nonunion company if the union neither represents the company's employees nor displays a representational interest in them. The Eleventh Circuit declined to adopt the Ninth Circuit's interpretation of the statute, stating that it found the Chewelah limitation inconsistent with the statute's central aim. It held that regardless of whether the...
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