Carpenters 46 County Conference Board v. Construction Industry Stabilization Committee

ORDER STAYING DECISION OF CROSS-MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT AND CERTIFYING CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUE TO TEMPORARY EMERGENCY COURT OF APPEALS

This case involves a broad-based attack on the Nixon Administration’s Economic Stabilization Program of 1971-74. *483 Plaintiffs are the Carpenters 46 County Conference Board, Local 34 of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, 1 and three officials of these labor organizations, which represent workers in the construction industry in Northern California. Defendants are the Construction Industry Stabilization Committee (CISC) and its chairman, John T. Dun-lop. The issue is whether CISC properly disapproved all but 15 cents of the 65 cent wage increase plaintiffs were scheduled, under a collective bargaining agreement, to receive beginning in June, 1973. Both plaintiffs and defendants have moved for summary judgment. In order to resolve plaintiffs’ multiplicity of attacks on CISC’s action, the court must first outline the development of the Economic Stabilization Program and review the history of the dispute between plaintiffs and defendants over the June, 1973, wage increases.

I. The Regulatory Background,

The regulatory framework of the Program…