National Labor Relations Board v. Security Plating Company, Inc.

The National Labor Relations Board has petitioned this court to enforce its order issued against Security Plating Company (Security) on June 29,1964.

The Board’s order, which adopted the recommendations of the Trial Examiner, directed Security to offer to reinstate and make whole two former employees, to recognize Local 67, Metal Polishers, Buffers, Platers & Helpers International Union, AFL-CIO (Union), as the collective bargaining representative of its production and maintenance employees, to cease all coercion and restraint of said employees in the exercise of rights guaranteed them by Section 7 of the Act, ( 29 U.S.C.A. § 157 ), and to post the usual notices.

In early July 1963, the Union commenced a campaign to organize Security’s production and maintenance employees, and by July 19 had succeeded in securing the signatures of a majority of the employees on authorization cards designating the Union as their collective bargaining representative. By a letter dated July 16,1963 and received on July 19, the Union informed Security of its majority status and demanded a meeting to negotiate a labor agreement. Security made no response. Instead, it immediately approached several…