National Labor Relations Board v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local Union 112, Afl-Cio

The National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”) applies for enforcement of its second supplemental decision and order issued against the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 112, AFL-CIO (the “Union”). The Board’s order requires the Union to pay four journeymen electricians the sum of $241,830.15, to compensate them for losses of pay suffered because of the Union’s discrimination against them in hiring hall dispatch decisions. We affirm.

Facts and Proceedings

The Union is located in the Tri-Cities area of Washington state (Richland, Kennewick, and Pasco). On May 23, 1984, the Board issued its decision and order in Fischbach/Lord Electric Co., 290 N.L.R.B. 856 (1983), finding that the Union had discriminated against four nonmembers of Local 112 in hiring hall dispatch decisions in violation of §§ 8(b)(2) and 8(b)(1)(A) of the National Labor Relations Act (the “Act”). The Board’s order required the Union to make the four discriminatees whole for any loss of pay suffered as a result of those practices. We affirmed the Board’s findings in N.L.R.B. v. International Bhd. of Elec. Workers, Local 112, 827 F.2d 530 (9th Cir.1987), and entered a judgment enforcing the…