Leon Handbag Co. v. Local 213 of Leather, Luggage and Handbag Workers
Decision Date | 19 September 1969 |
Court | California Court of Appeals Court of Appeals |
Parties | , 72 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 2583, 61 Lab.Cas. P 10,401 LEON HANDBAG CO., Inc., a corporation, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. LOCAL 213 OF the LEATHER, LUGGAGE AND HANDBAG WORKERS, an unincorporated labor association affiliated with the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations, Antonio La Stelley, President thereof, and Max Roth, Executive Secretary thereof, Defendants and Respondents. Civ. 33915. |
Bertram H. Ross, Los Angeles, for appellant.
Brundage, Neyhart, Miller, Ross & Reich, by Roger Frommer, Los Angeles, for respondents.
Leon Handbag, a corporation, (Leon) appeals from the judgment entered upon an order sustaining a general demurrer to its complaint .
In its complaint filed on April 9, 1968, Leon alleged that it had an existing collective bargaining agreement with Local 213 of the Leather, Luggage and Handbag Workers, an AFL-CIO affiliated labor association, which included a no-strike, no lockout provision and a sub-contracting provision which reads: (Section 18.)
The agreement also contained a broad grievance and arbitration procedure (Section 13):
As a result of changes in the shoe and handbag industry, Leon decided 'to cease manufacturing handbags and to engage in the jobbing of handbags which plaintiff would import from other countries and offer to sell at wholesale as well as to develop certain specialty lines of handbags which it would not manufacture but would procure through having the same manufactured by contractors who would be entirely independent from and separate and apart from plaintiff.' Leon notified the Union by letter on March 25, 1968, of its intentions to cease manufacturing hand bags on April 1, 1968. The Union notified Leon that, under the collective bargaining agreement, Leon could not cease manufacturing or acquire hand bags for sale through a contracting operation. Leon then filed its complaint and seeks therein to have the court declare that it has the right to change its business to jobbing and to cease manufacturing and may as part of its jobbing business have hand bags made for it by independent contractors. Union demurred generally to the complaint. The court sustained the demurrer and noted:
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