McLeod v. BAKERY, PASTRY & FROZEN BAKED PROD. DRIVERS
| Decision Date | 11 April 1962 |
| Docket Number | No. 62 C 298.,62 C 298. |
| Citation | 204 F. Supp. 288 |
| Parties | Ivan C. McLEOD, Regional Director of the Second Region of the National Labor Relations Board, for and on Behalf of the NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Petitioner, v. BAKERY, PASTRY AND FROZEN BAKED PRODUCTS DRIVERS AND HELPERS, LOCAL 802, INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS, CHAUFFEURS, WAREHOUSEMEN AND HELPERS OF AMERICA, Respondent. |
| Court | U.S. District Court — Eastern District of New York |
Jacques Schurre, New York City (Stuart Rothman, Dominick L. Manoli, Winthrop A. Johns, Washington, D. C., and Samuel M. Kaynard, New York City, of counsel), for Regional Director, in support of motion for injunction.
Bruce H. Simon, New York City (Cohen & Weiss, New York City, of counsel), for respondent, opposed.
The Regional Director has moved for an injunction against respondent's picketing of a bakery that the charging party, Wilson-Jacobi, Inc., is just opening in Syosset, Long Island. A hearing has been held and the facts have been separately found.
The issue most sharply contested is whether the picketing is primary picketing in lawful exercise of respondent's right to seek to organize Wilson-Jacobi or is picketing that constitutes an unfair labor practice on respondent's part under 29 U.S.C.A. § 158(b) (4) (i), (ii) (B).
Wilson-Jacobi's plan of operation is to make baked products and sell them through numerous retail outlets of its own located as "leased departments" in supermarkets. It has contracted to have all the transportation services it needs, to move its baked products from the bakery to the supermarkets, rendered to it by an independent contractor, Alho Corporation, who will supply the equipment and employ and direct the men. Wilson-Jacobi has signed a collective bargaining agreement covering all its production, maintenance, sales and miscellaneous employees, including those engaged in the slicing, packing, shipping and receiving operations. Alho Corporation is unionized but it has had no operation in Syosset heretofore and the local representing its existing employees has no interest in representing any men Alho may hire to staff a new trucking operation based at Syosset.
At about the time Wilson-Jacobi had completed its "practice" baking, preparatory to going into commercial production, respondent, which traditionally represents drivers for independent bakers, established a two man picket line at Wilson-Jacobi's bakery; the picket signs appealed to the Wilson-Jacobi employees to join respondent. Respondent knew generally that Wilson-Jacobi was unionized at least as to its production and maintenance people but expected that it would hire drivers and that respondent could bid to represent them and the miscellaneous employees. It soon learned of the Alho arrangement and of Alho's local's lack of interest; ultimately respondent had an inconclusive meeting with Alho at which it proposed terms unsatisfactory to Alho and also insisted that any contract with Alho be counter-signed by Wilson-Jacobi so that if the baker changed truckers the contract would endure. (Unlike other Teamster locals respondent has no contracts with any trucking companies or truck rental companies; its contracts are all with baked goods companies, covering their drivers and some miscellaneous employees.)
The picketing continued from February 26th until restrained on March 23, 1962. It impeded deliveries, resulted in a temporary walk-out by the production and maintenance employees and quickly caused Wilson-Jacobi to shut down production and cancel its schedule for initiating commercial distribution. Respondent has not made any demonstrated progress in its organizational effort and has resorted to none of the wonted solicitations of membership beyond establishing its picket line.
Petitioner's showing places its case well within the area in which the National Labor Relations Board can find that an unfair labor practice occurred. McLeod v. Drivers and Chauffeurs Local Union No. 816, S.D.N.Y.1959, 178 F. Supp. 288, aff'd, 2nd Cir.1960, 277 F.2d 800; Drivers and Chauffeurs Local Union No. 816 v. N. L. R. B., 2nd Cir.1961, 292 F.2d 329; Shore for and on Behalf of N. L. R. B. v. General Teamsters, Chauffeurs and Helpers Local No. 249, W.D.Pa.1959, 169 F.Supp. 817; cf. Haughton v. International Woodworkers of America, D.Or.1958, 168 F.Supp. 273. The differentiation between primarily exerted pressures and "secondary" economic consequences, useful in analysis, is not...
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