National Labor Relations Board v. Carlton Wood Products Co.

The- National Labor Relations Board petitions for enforcement óf an order issued against respondent, the operator of a wood box and lumber manufacturing plant at Payette, Idaho. Respondent purchases materials and sells its products across state lines, and is admittedly engaged in commerce within the meaning of the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C.A. § 151 et seq., as,amended by the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, 29 U.S.C.A. § 141 et seq. No jurisdictional question is raised.

The Board found that respondent had refused to bargain collectively with the Blue Mountain District Council of Lumber and Sawmill Workers, the union which had been certified as bargaining representative for respondent’s employees, thereby violating § 8(a)(5) and (1) of the Act. 29 U.S.C.A. § 158 (a)(5) and (1). The proposed order requires respondent to cease and desist from refusing to bargain collectively with the certified union, from interfering with the union’s efforts to bargain and, in addition, to take certain affirmative action which the Board found would effectuate the policies of the Act.

Respondent concedes that it refused to bargain. Its contention is that certification of the…