National Labor Relations Board v. Retail Clerks International Ass'n, A.F.L., Retail Clerks Union Local 648

On January 14, 1950, this court entered a consent decree enforcing an order of the National Labor Relations Board directing, among other things, that Retail Clerks International Association, AFL (hereinafter called “International”) and Retail Clerks Union, Local 648 (hereinafter called “Local”) shall not “(b) Refuse to bargain collectively with Safeway [Stores, Incorporated] for the employees in the unit described in paragraph IV of the stipulation in case No. 20-CB-43 by insisting or demanding that Safeway bargain collectively for supervisory employees of Safeway within the meaning of Section 2(11) of the Act.” The “employees in the unit described in paragraph IV” were “all employees in the grocery departments of the 71 Safeway stores in San Francisco County, excluding location' managers and other supervisory employees * * *.” In the same proceeding this court entered consent decrees enforcing similar Board ' orders against several other Local Retail Clerks Unions affiliated with International.

Subsequently the Board filed a petition in this court to have International, Local, and certain named officials of those organizations adjudged in civil contempt for refusing to bargain…