NLRB v. AMERICAN MANUFACTURING COMPANY OF TEXAS, 25443.
Decision Date | 30 December 1968 |
Docket Number | No. 25443.,25443. |
Citation | 405 F.2d 473 |
Parties | NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Petitioner, v. AMERICAN MANUFACTURING COMPANY OF TEXAS, Respondent. |
Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Fifth Circuit |
Marcel Mallet-Prevost, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Mitchell L. Strickler, Atty., N. L. R. B., Washington, D. C., Arnold Ordman, General Counsel, Dominick L. Manoli, Associate General Counsel, Lawrence M. Joseph, Atty., N. L. R. B., for petitioner.
Karl H. Mueller, Harold E. Mueller, Mueller & Mueller, Fort Worth, Tex., for respondent.
Before ALDRICH*, GODBOLD and DYER, Circuit Judges.
We now add another chapter to the growing volume of cases involving that "aging but nevertheless persistently vexing problem" of when an employee is just an employee and when he may reach the status of supervisor. N. L. R. B. v. Security Guard Service, Inc., 384 F.2d 143 (5th Cir. 1967).
The National Labor Relations Board has petitioned this court to enforce a bargaining order against respondent American Manufacturing Company of Texas. The refusal to bargain is admitted, but respondent seeks to excuse the otherwise clear violation of sections 8(a) (5) and (1) by asserting that the certification of the Union was invalid because it included inspectors who were supervisors.
Section 2(11) of the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C.A. § 152(11), defines supervisor in terms of one "having authority, in the interest of the employer," over other employees, provided that "the exercise of such authority is not of a merely routine or clerical nature, but requires the use of independent judgment." This court previously has said that this section "expressly insists that a supervisor 1) have authority 2) to use independent judgment 3) in performing such supervisor functions 4) in the interest of management." N.L.R.B. v. Security Guard Service, Inc., 384 F.2d at 147 (5th Cir. 1967).
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