Brown

Plaintiff labor unions bring suit against the Regional Director of the National Labor Relations Board and the Regional Counsel of the Board, claiming that they have been deprived of due process of law. A detailed statement of the intricate facts on which the suit is based will not be necessary in view of this Court’s conclusion that the action must be dismissed for lack of indispensable parties.

During 1954 a rival union petitioned the Board for certification as the bargaining representative of. certain employees who had formerly been represented by plaintiffs. An election was held among the employees in question, and thereafter plaintiffs filed charges with the Regional Director claiming that the employer had been guilty of unfair labor practices, and plaintiffs also requested the Regional Director to consider those charges to be objections to the election. The Regional Director decided that there was not sufficient evidence of unfair labor practices to justify his issuing a complaint. Plaintiffs appealed this decision to the General Counsel of the Board, who sustained the decision of the Regional Director.

The Regional Director also rejected plaintiffs’ objections to the…