National Labor Relations Board v. International Union of Operating Engineers Local 12

This is a secondary boycott case. See Section 8(b) (4) (A) and (B) of the National Labor-Management Relations Act. 29 U.S.C.A. § 151 et seq.

In the background, from the standpoint of International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 12, (hereafter called the local) were unsatisfactory labor relations with two heavy earth working equipment dealers in the Los Angeles area. These concerns were the Crook Company and the Shepherd Machinery Company. Efforts had been made by the local to get a bargaining representative status and a union contract with them. All such efforts have failed.

As a part of local’s campaign to represent the employees of the two companies, pickets were posted at their places of business. The lines were on occasion removed, but were generally in force in March, April and May, 1955.

Surviving through the board procedures of complaint, examiner’s hearing, examiner’s intermediate report, and the board’s decision and order are incidents of local’s union activity in the spring of 1955 involving Crook’s customer, Crowell & Larson and Shepherd’s customer, Me-Cammon-Wunderlich Company. These customers were all in the Los Angeles area too. Of no concern here are charges…