National Labor Relations Board v. F. W. Woolworth Co.

Herein we have a question of whether the Woolworth Company must furnish certain payroll information to a representative of a clerk’s union (hereafter called “local”), the collective bargaining agent for the employees of the company’s store at San Bernardino, Calif.

The demand was for names, hours and wages of employees over a period immediately preceding the demand. The Woolworth Company refused and refuses to supply the requested information other than names of employees and initial classification.

The Labor Board has found an unfair labor practice and petitions here for the usual enforcement order.

Before setting forth the details of the controversy, we think it advisable to set forth hereafter as an appendix the entire wage agreement which is at the root of the succeeding events in the labor-management dispute. The agi’eemerit appears as appendix “A”.

It will be noted in Section 21 that the two year agreement provided for a cost-of-living adjustment on March 7, 1953, or the basic minimum wage rate as contained in Section 5. Also in Section 21 one observes a provision for further adjustment by “mutual agreement between the parties.” The management prerogative clause, Section…