National Labor Relations Board v. International Association of MacHinists Lodge 942, Afl-Cio

The National Labor Relations Board, hereafter Board, determined in a pror ceeding before it that respondent International Association of Machinists, Lodge 942, AFL-CIO, hereafter Union, had committed unfair labor practices in that it had attempted to illegally restrain and coerce the employees of the Alloy Manufacturing Company, hereafter Alloy, as prohibited by section 8(b) (1) (A) of the National Labor Relations Act, 61 Stat. 140 (1947), 29 U.S.C.A. § 158 , and that Union had violated section 8(b) (2) of the Act by attempting to cause Alloy to discriminate against its employees in violation of section 8(a) (3).

Section 8(b) (1) (A) provides that: “It shall be an unfair labor practice for a labor organization or its agents * * to restrain or coerce * * * employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in section 7”; section 7, 29 U.S.C.A. § 157 provides that: “employees shall have the right to self-organization, * * to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing * * * and shall also have the right to refrain from any or all of such activities * * ”.

Section 8(b) (2) provides that: “It shall be an unfair labor practice for a labor organization or its…