National Labor Relations Board v. Jeffries Banknote Company

Before the Court is a petition of the National Labor Relations Board for the enforcement of an order of the Board dated September 15, 1959, made after a finding by the Board that Jeffries Banknote Company, respondent herein, had violated § 8(a) (5) and (1) of the National Labor Relations Act, as amended ( 29 U.S.C.A. § 151 et seq.), by refusing to execute a collective bargaining agreement which had been negotiated on its behalf by the employers’ association through which it participated in a multi-employer bargaining relationship with the respresentative of its employees.

The record shows the following factual situation to have existed. For a number of years prior to 1958 collective bargaining between lithographic employees and most of the commercial printing companies in Los Angeles had been conducted upon a multi-employer basis, the employees being represented by the Amalgamated Lithographers of America, Local 22, AFL-CIO, hereinafter Union, and the printing companies being represented by the Union Employers’ Section of the Printing Industries Association, hereinafter the Association. The members of the Association had signed an authorization form which authorized the…