National Labor Relations Board v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 11

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) applies for enforcement of an order finding Local 11 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, AFL-CIO, (Local 11) guilty of an unfair labor practice in the operation of its hiring hall. We grant the application and enforce the NLRB order.

Local 11 has a collective bargaining agreement with the Los Angeles County Chapter of the National Electrical Contractors Association under which it is empowered to operate an exclusive hiring hall within Los Angeles County. Sections 4.01 through 4.16 of the agreement set forth the referral procedures by which employees are dispatched to employers from the Local 11 hiring hall. Under § 4.05, Local 11 registers applicants for employment into onfe of four different groups. Referrals for employment are made from Groups I, II, III, and IV in that order. Section.§ 4.05 of the agreement defines the requirements for Group I eligibility as follows:

Section 4.09 defines “resident” as

In late 1982 and early 1983, Steven R. Loveall, Vincent J. Sokol, and William G. Mott, charging parties below and inter-venors on appeal, individually sought and were denied permission by the local’s business manager…