National Labor Relations Board v. International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union & Local 27

This case is before the Court upon the application of the National Labor Relations Board (hereinafter Board), pursuant to Section 10(e) of the National Labor Relations Act, as amended ( 29 U.S.C. § 151 et seq.) (hereinafter, Act), for enforcement of an order issued against the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU) and its Local 27 on September 7, 1973 ( 205 NLRB No. 142 ), for violations of Sections 8(b)(2) and 8(b)(1)(A) of the Act ( 29 U.S.C. §§ 158 (b)(2) and (b)(1)(A)).

On February 25, 1971, Morris Bond, a member of Local 27 and a registered longshoreman, was cited to appear before the Joint Port Labor Relations Committee of Port Angeles, California (hereinafter, Committee), upon several “no-show” complaints filed by his employers and a complaint brought by the union members of the Committee, charging Bond with the “threat of assault and use of abusive language” towards Leroy Jagger, who was then President of Local 27 and one of the three union members on the six-person Committee.

After separately disposing of the “no-show” complaints, the Committee considered the complaint concerning Bond’s conduct towards Jagger. With Jagger participating as…