National Labor Relations Board v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Afl-Cio, and Its Local Union No. 769

This proceeding, commenced by the N. L. R. B. to enforce an order against the IBEW and its affiliated Local 769, concerns several of the secondary boycott provisions of the National Labor Relations Act, as amended by the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, 29 U.S.C. § 158 .

Briefly, the trial examiner’s findings, approved by the Board, were substantially as follows:

For many years the IBEW and its affiliated locals have maintained collective bargaining relationships with Ets-Hokin, a general and electrical construction firm. During the period covered by this proceeding Ets-Hokin was party to labor agreements with a number of IBEW locals relating to work on construction jobs throughout the United States, including one with Local 769, whose territorial jurisdiction extended over the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation Glen Canyon Dam project in Northern Arizona. All of them contained the following clause (or one essentially the same):

In October 1962 Ets-Hokin subcontracted to Rose Construction Co. part of the electrical installation work on the Glen Canyon project. Soon afterward Rose entered into a collective bargaining agreement with a non-IBEW union which…