Leonard

Eleven furniture-dealing firms organized in a multi-employer unit organization, hereafter called the Dealers, petition to set aside orders of the respondent Board to cease and desist from locking out temporarily their employees, all of them members of a single labor organization, Master Furniture Guild Local 1225, hereafter called the Union, and to give back pay to the union members so locked out. The Board petitions for the enforcement of its orders.

The Board sustained the Trial Examiner’s findings that the temporary lockout occurred while the Dealers’ unit and the Union were engaged in active negotiation for an amendment of a prior agreement between them as to wages and conditions of employment. It is clear that the temporary lockout was not a discharge but that the locked out men continued as the Dealers’ employees.

While the negotiations were pending, the Union, by a vote of the employees of all the firms of the. Dealers’ unit, had called a strike, which followed, of the employees of one of the members of the Dealers, the Union Furniture Company. The latter company at the time the strike was called was complying with all the provisions of the then existing agreement. The…