National Labor Relations Board v. Local No. 12, International Union of Operating Engineers

This matter includes four different appeals, each of which is related to the others. The parties to the various appeals are: The National Labor Relations Board (hereinafter referred to as the Board); Maas & Feduska, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as the Company); the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 12, AFL-CIO (hereinafter referred to as the Union); and the Operating Engineers Health and Welfare Fund, the Operating Engineers Pension Trust, the Operating Engineers Vacation-Holiday Savings Trust, the Operating Engineers Training Trust, the Southern California Operating Engineers Benefits Administration, Inc., and Leo A. Majich (hereinafter referred to as the Trusts). In brief, the appeals are concerned with: a petition of the National Labor Relations Board for enforcement of a 1979 order of the Board requiring the Union and the Trusts (as agents of the Union) to repay the amount paid by Maas & Feduska, Inc., to the Trusts resulting from events in 1975 (Case No. 80-7467); and the petition of the Board for enforcement of its order of November, 1979, ordering the Union to cease and desist from refusing to bargain collectively with Maas & Feduska, Inc., as more…