National Labor Relations Bd. v. Yawman & Erbe Mfg. Co.
| Decision Date | 28 March 1951 |
| Docket Number | Docket 21789.,No. 107,107 |
| Parties | NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD v. YAWMAN & ERBE MFG. CO. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Second Circuit |
George J. Bott, General Counsel, David P. Findling, Associate General Counsel, A. Norman Somers, Asst. General Counsel, Frederick U. Reel and Raymond M. Norton, Attorneys, National Labor Relations Board, all of Washington, D. C., for petitioner.
Nixon, Hargrave, Middleton & Devans, Rochester, N. Y., for respondent; Arthur L. Stern and William H. Morris, Rochester, N. Y., of counsel.
Before L. HAND, Chief Judge, and SWAN and FRANK, Circuit Judges.
The issue in this case is whether the employer can be compelled to furnish a union with current wage data of employees in the bargaining unit when requested to do so in the course of bargaining for a new contract. The Office Employees International Union, Local No. 34, A. F. of L., was certified as the exclusive bargaining representative for certain of respondent's non-production employees in 1946 and continued as such during all times material to the present case. After certification the Union executed contracts with respondent in the years 1946, 1947 and 1948. The 1948 contract expired February 24, 1949, and prior to its expiration the Union and respondent began negotiations for a new contract, in the course of which the Union requested four major changes in the 1948 contract. It demanded a 15 per cent. across-the-board wage increase, a $1.00 minimum hourly wage, a union shop, and longer vacations for employees with seniority. Respondent refused these requests and offered to renew the 1948 contract without change. Thereupon the Union asked respondent for and was refused a list of all employees, together with their current salaries and salaries as of January 1, 1946, 1947 and 1948. At a hearing before a Trial Examiner appointed by the Board, the Examiner found that respondent's refusal to supply the requested information constituted a refusal to bargain in violation of section 8(a) (5) and (1) of the Act.1 The Board affirmed the Examiner's rulings except as to the wage information requested for the years 1946 and 1947, and entered an order accordingly.2 The present petition seeks enforcement of its order.3
Respondent concedes that an employer must supply a union with relevant wage information as an incident of its duty to bargain in good faith. But it contends that the Union did not show how the information was relevant to the negotiations for the 1949 contract, and that the Union demonstrated the irrelevancy of the requested information by negotiating and executing a contract while the present proceeding was pending before the Board, and before the Union received the information which the Board subsequently required the employer to furnish. We are unable to agree with either contention. We approve the Board's finding that the wage information for the year 1948 was "clearly relevant" to the 1949 negotiations. Respondent rejected the Union's demand for wage increases...
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