National Labor Relations Board v. International Association of MacHinists Aeronautical Industrial District Lodge 727 and Local Lodge 758, Afl-Cio

The National Labor Relations Board invokes the jurisdiction of this Court under § 10(e) of the National Labor Relations Act [ 29 U.S.C.A. § 160 (e)] to enforce an order of the Board directing respondents to cease and desist from certain alleged unfair labor practices. See 29 U.S.C.A. § 151 et seq., as amended by 61 Stat. 136 (1947).

Stated briefly, the facts are these. Menasco Manufacturing Company, a California corporation, is engaged in the manufacture of airplane parts and, moreover, is engaged in commerce within the meaning of § 2(6) of the Act. 29 U.S. C.A. § 152(6). The company is divided into several units. Each unit may be represented from time to time by a -different union as bargaining agent, while some units may have no such representative at all. The units concerned in this case are the “production” unit, whose bargaining representative is the respondent union, the International Association of Machinists, Aeronautical Industrial District Lodge 727 and Local Lodge 758, AFL-CIO (hereinafter “IAM”), and the “engineering” unit, whose bargaining representative is Local 183, American Federation of Technical Engineers, AFL-CIO (hereinafter “AFTE”). Both the IAM and the AFTE…