National Labor Relations Board v. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.

The National Labor Relations Board petitions, pursuant to § 10(e) of the National Labor Relations Act, as amended, 61 Stat. 136 , 29 U.S.C.A. § 151 et seq., for the enforcement of its order in a proceeding commenced by 24 complainants, requiring respondents- to cease and desist from claimed unfair labor practices, to reinstate and make whole some complainants and to pay -back pay to others.

The Board found that all three respondents, Warner Bros., Columbia Pictures and Loew’s, Inc., had violated § 8(1) of the Act, 29 U.S.C.A. § 158 (1) .

The specific conduct held 'to constitute a violation of § 8(1) was by discriminatorily refusing to reinstate 23 complainants held to be employees, 20 at Warner’s; 2 at Loew’s; 1 at Columbia, because of their collective activities during the strike hereafter described. As to one complairiant, found to be a Columbia employee (Hentschel), the violation was based upon a determination that Columbia had re-employed him after the strike had ended and then discriminatorily discharged him after he had worked one day.

Respondents were subjected to a strike called by the Conference of Studio Unions (GSU). This was a jurisdictional strike against the…