National Labor Relations Board v. Los Angeles Yuma Freight Lines

The National Labor Relations Board petitions to enforce its order directing Los Angeles-Yuma Freight Lines and Svensson Freight Lines (collectively, the Company) to cease and desist from refusing to recognize and bargain collectively with Locals 104, 208, and 357 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and from refusing to reinstate unfair labor practice strikers in violation of sections 8(a) (5) and (1) and 8(a) (3) of the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 158 (a) (5) and (1) and (3). The Board further ordered the Company to take certain affirmative action.

A full understanding of the factual context of this case requires a familiarity with the nationwide multiemployer bargaining between the Teamsters In ternational and Trucking Employer’s, Inc., during late 1963 and early 1964 which culminated in adoption of a national collective bargaining agreement, the 1964-67 National Master Freight Agreement. The nature of the negotiations leading up to that agreement and the relationship of individual employers and regional employer associations to the national employer bargaining representatives are set out at some length in the Board’s decision and order, 172 N.L.R.B. No.…