National Labor Relations Board v. Southern California Edison Company

646 F.2d 1352 107 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 2667 , 91 Lab.Cas. P 12,797 NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Petitioner, and Local Union No. 47, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, AFL-CIO, Intervenor, v. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY, Respondent. No. 79-7435. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted July 2, 1980. Decided June 1, 1981. Paul J. Spielberg, Washington, D. C., for petitioner. William Z. Carr, Jr., Los Angeles, Cal., for respondent. On Application for Enforcement of an Order of the National Labor Relations Board. Before MARKEY, * Chief Judge, WALLACE and SKOPIL, Circuit Judges. SKOPIL, Circuit Judge. INTRODUCTION 1 The National Labor Relations Board ("the Board") seeks enforcement of its order, 243 NLRB No. 62 (1979), holding that Southern California Edison Company ("SCE") violated sections 8(a)(1) and (3) of the National Labor Relations Act ("the Act"), 29 U.S.C. §§ 151 et seq., by threatening to discipline employees who honored a lawful picket line established by another union representing SCE employees, and by disciplining an employee who refused to cross a lawful picket line at a customer's place of business. The Board…