NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD v. Taormina

Decision Date09 May 1957
Docket NumberNo. 14362.,14362.
PartiesNATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Petitioner, v. E. A. TAORMINA, A. F. Taormina, Mrs. Madeline M. Taormina, Charles Messina, and Frank Culucchia, Co-Partners, d/b/a Taormina Company, Respondents.
CourtU.S. Court of Appeals — Fifth Circuit

Ruth V. Reel, Julius G. Serot, Winthrop A. Johns, Attys., N.L.R.B., David P. Findling, Associate Gen. Counsel, A. Norman Somers, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Washington, D. C., for petitioner.

Scott Toothaker, Orville I. Cox, McAllen, Tex., for respondents.

Before HOLMES, BORAH and RIVES, Circuit Judges.

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

The National Labor Relations Board (hereinafter called the board) seeks an adjudication in civil contempt against the respondents for failing to comply with the decree of this court entered on the 5th of November, 1953. The board's decision and order are reported in 94 N.L.R.B. 884. The opinion of this court is reported in 207 F.2d 251. The issue presented is whether the respondents have contumaciously refused to bargain collectively with Citrus Canning Workers and Food Processors Union No. 24,473, A.F.L. as the exclusive representative of all their employees.

The board's petition for adjudication in civil contempt was set for a pretrial hearing before Judge Rives, a member of this court, on November the 9th, 1956. Attorneys for both sides were present. Immediately after the conference was concluded, and as a result thereof, Judge Rives wrote that no formal pretrial order was called for but that the following understandings were reached:

"(1) Both parties considered that the issues in the civil contempt proceedings would depend mostly on whether the company had insisted on (a) employee participation among the bargaining representatives, or (b) a performance bond or other form of security as a condition to entering into a bargaining agreement. The company stoutly protests its innocence, and asserts its willingness now and in the future to continue the bargaining without insisting on either of these two matters as a prerequisite. The board's counsel stated that he was interested only in compliance and that if an agreement were reached, or the company bargained in good faith and failed to reach an agreement, it would ask to be allowed to withdraw its contempt petition. The company's attorney agreed to notify the union that the company was ready to resume bargaining negotiations. Both sides stated that they hoped that either an agreement would be reached, or that the company would satisfy the board that it was bargaining in good faith.

"(2) I told the parties that in normal course this contempt petition would be set for hearing in New Orleans in...

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