British Auto Parts, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board, Teledyne, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board

These two appeals are from orders of different district courts enforcing subpoenas against employers issued by the National Labor Relations Board to provide the Board’s Regional Office with the addresses (in addition to the names) of the employees eligible to vote in the representation elections which had been set for the respective plants. The basis for the demand was in both cases the holding and requirement of the Board’s decision in Excelsior Underwear, Inc., 156 NLRB 1236 (1966).

We can see no need to engage in further judicial discourse on the contentions made as to the unreasonableness and unfairness of an employer’s being required to provide the addresses of his employees for use in a representation election, and further of his being thereby also forced to breach actual or presumable confidence in respect to employees’ home privacy. These questions have had sufficient answer by decisions of two courts of appeal—with which we agree—N. L. R. B. v. Hanes Hosiery Division, 384 F.2d 188 (4 Cir. 1967), cert. denied 390 U.S. 950 , 88 S.Ct. 1041 , 19 L.Ed.2d 1141 , and N. L. R. B. v. Rohlen, 385 F.2d 52 (7 Cir. 1967).

We accordingly merely note our approval of the findings and…