National Labor Relations Board v. General Telephone Directory Company

Petitioner seeks enforcement of an order of the National Labor Relations Board against respondent General Telephone Directory Company (hereafter the company or employer), a subsidiary of General Telephone and Electric Company engaged in the compilation and sale of telephone numbers and street address directories.

Prior to the commencement of a union organizational campaign by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, AFL-CIO, Local Union No. 2139 (hereafter the union), the National Labor Relations Board found, in accordance with most of the factual findings of the administrative law judge (ALJ), that respondent company, through a number of its supervisors, advised the sales representatives of budgeted wage increases scheduled for January 1976.

On August 4, 1975, the union filed a petition for a certification election in a unit composed of specific employees of the company. From this date until the election, held November 7, 1975 on a secret ballot, further statements of an alleged violative nature, indicating the company’s position with regard to the scheduled wage increases relative to the advent of unionization, were made by various general managers and district…