140 NLRB 1090
Local 507, Int'l Hod Carriers' Building, Etc.
1090
DECISIONS OF NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
Local 507 International Hod Carriers' Building and Common
Laborers' Union of America, AFL-CIO [W. E. Jones Con-
struction] and George S. Ferrell, Jr. and Lloyd Bates.
Cases
Nos. 21-CB-1818-1 and 21-CB-1848-..
February 6, 1963
DECISION AND ORDER
On October 26, 1962, Trial Examiner William E. Spencer issued
his Intermediate Report in the above-entitled proceeding, finding that
the Respondent had engaged in certain unfair labor practices and
recommending that it cease and desist therefrom and take certain
affirmative action, as set forth in the attached Intermediate Report.
Thereafter, the Respondent and counsel for the General Counsel filed
exceptions to the Intermediate Report and supporting briefs.'
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 3(b) of the Act, the Board
has delegated its powers in connection with this case to a three-
member panel [Members Leedom, Fanning, and Brown].
The Board has reviewed the rulings of the Trial Examiner made
at the hearing and finds that no prejudicial error has been committed.
The rulings are hereby affirmed. The Board has considered the In-
termediate Report, the exceptions and briefs, and the entire record
in the case, and hereby adopts the Trial Examiner's findings,2 con-
clusions, and recommendations, as modified herein.
ORDER
The Board adopts as its Order the Trial Examiner's Recommended
Order with the modification noted below.3
r The Respondent's request for oral argument is denied, as the record, including the
exceptions and briefs, adequately presents the issues and positions of the parties
i We note, as implicitly found by the Trial Examiner, that the hiring hall provisions of
the current master agreement between the Southern California General Contractors and
the Southern California District Council of Laborers provide for exclusive referral by
the Union.
3 Backpay shall include the payment of interest at the rate of 6 percent per annum to
be computed in the manner set forth in Isis Plumbing S Heating Co , 138 NLRB 716 For
the reasons stated in his dissent in that case, Member Leedom would not award interest
on backpay, and does not approve the award here
INTERMEDIATE REPORT AND RECOMMENDED ORDER
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
This proceeding involves allegations that the Respondent violated Section
8(b)(1)(A) and (2) of the National Labor Relations Act, as amended, 61 Stat.
135, 73 Stat. 519, herein called the Act, and is based upon a consolidated complaint
issued by the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, herein called
the Board, on May 21, 1962, and charges filed by two individuals, respectively, on
March 26, 1962. The Respondent in its duly filed answer denied the commission
of the alleged unfair labor practices.
A hearing, with the General Counsel and
the Respondent present and participating, was held on July 16 and August 13, 1962,
in Los Angeles, California, before Trial Examiner William E. Spencer.
On request
of the Respondent time for filing briefs was extended from September 17 to Octo-
ber 2, and on or before this latter date the General Counsel filed a brief.
140 NLRB No. 103.
LOCAL 507 INT'L HOD CARRIERS' BUILDING, ETC.
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Upon consideration of the entire record in the case, and from my observation
of the witnesses, I make the following:
FINDINGS OF FACT
1. THE BUSINESS OF THE EMPLOYERS
Associated General Contractors of America, Southern California Chapter, herein
called AGC; Building Contractors Association, Inc., herein called BCA; Engineering
and Grading Contractors Association, Inc., herein called EGC; and Home Builders
Association of Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura Counties, herein called HBA,
collectively called the Associations, are and each of them is, an association com-
posed of building and construction contractors, herein individually called members,
who are located in, and doing business in, all States of the United States. The As-
sociations exist in part to negotiate contracts with and conduct labor relations for
their respective members with labor organizations, including Respondent.
Annually the California members of the Associations ship goods and perform
services outside the State of California valued in excess of $50,000 and, in the ag-
gregate, annually sell goods and perform services to other California enterprises
which annually ship goods and perform services outside the State of California valued
in excess of $50,000.
In addition, the members of the respective Associations annually receive goods
and services valued in excess of $50,000 from firms and persons located within the
State of California which, in turn, annually receive goods and services from firms
and persons located outside the State of California
Said members of the respective
Associations likewise sell goods and perform services to firms and persons located
outside of California valued in excess of $50,000.
The Associations and their members are, and at all times material herein have
been, employers engaged in commerce within the meaning of Section 2(6) and (7)
of the Act.'
II
THE LABOR ORGANIZATION INVOLVED
Local 507 International Hod Carriers ' Building and Common Laborers' Union of
America, AFL-CIO, the Respondent herein, is a labor organization within the mean-
ing of the Act.
III. THE UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES
Pursuant to a collective-bargaining agreement executed by Southern California
District Council of Laborers, of which Local 507 is a part, and four employer as-
sociations, AGC, BCA, EGC, and HBA, Local 507 operates a hiring hall from which
it dispatches applicants for employment at the request of members of the Associa-
tions, and others.
No question is raised on the validity of the hiring hall provisions
of the contract. It is the contention and theory of the General Counsel that on or
about March 14 and 15, 1962, at a time when Local 507 was engaged in dispatching
applicants for employment to employer-members of the Associations named above,
it refused the request and application of George S. Ferrell, Jr., and Lloyd Bates, the
Charging Parties herein, for registration on Respondent's out-of-work list because
they were members of Local 300 and not of Local 507, thereby denying them
employment rights in violation of Section 8(b)(1)(A) and (2) of the Act
The
defense is that Ferrell and Bates were duly and properly registered on Local 507's
out-of-work list, and were denied no protected employment rights by the Respondent.
The controlling issue is one of credibility for I think there is no doubt that if the
Respondent, on proper application by Ferrell and Bates, denied them registration on
Respondent's out-of-work list, such action would constitute a violation of Section
8(b) (1) (A) and (2) of the Act.
I The findings above are based on evidence adduced at the hearing and on official
notice which I have taken on the Board's decision in Petersen Consti notion Corp , et at ,
128 NLRB 969, 991, a case in which the Respondent herein was one of the respondents
therein, represented there, as here, by Attorney Alexander H Schullman
At the opening
of the hearing herein, Respondent's attorney stipulated to the commerce facts alleged in
the complaint, but later withdrew from the stipulation for the sole reason that lie claimed
to have been misled by the Inclusion in the title of the case of W. E Jones Construction,
a nonmember of any of the Associations
He opposed the General Counsel's motion that
I take official notice of commerce facts regarding the Associations found by the Board
in the Petersen case, but while afforded full opportunity to do so, offered no evidence
controverting the validity of those findings .
H L. Townsend, 81 NLRB 739, 740
681-492-63-vol. 140-70
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Here follows the substance of the testimony of Ferrell and Bates, mutually cor-
roborative in matters that affected them and came to their attention jointly.
Ferrell applied for employment with W. E. Jones Construction, hereinafter called
Jones, a nonmember of the employer associations named herein, on Monday,
March 12, and was given a work order by Job Superintendent Phillips who told him
to take it to Local 507, and if he could get clearance from the said Local 507 he had
a job.
Ferrell gave the work order to one Stan Sorensen, a dispatcher for Local 507,
and requested clearance for the job. Sorensen told him to return the following
morning and see Business Agent McGinnis.
Ferrell returned as directed, saw Mc-
Ginnis, and requested clearance.
McGinnis advised Ferrell that he was not entitled
to clearance, and advised him to return to the Jones job and have Superintendent
Phillips telephone
McGinnis.
Ferrell relayed
McGinnis' message to Phillips.
Phillips then engaged in a telephone conversation and while so engaged, Bates ap-
peared at the jobsite and was waiting with Ferrell when Phillips terminated his tele-
phone conversation. Phillips said he could use Bates also on the Jones job if he could
get clearance from Local 507.
With knowledge that Ferrell had been refused clearance by Local 507, Bates did not
seek such clearance but accompanied Ferrell to offices of the District Council, of
which Local 507 was a part. Business Manager Leiby of the Council was absent
from his office and his secretary suggested that Ferrell and Bates telephone him
later that day.
They did so, explained their situation to Leiby, and Leiby advised
them that while he doubted that they were entitled to clearance on the Jones job,
they could register on Local 507's out-of-work list, go to the bottom of the list, and
work their way up.
The following morning, March 14, Bates and Ferrell went to the office of Local
507 and requested that Sorensen register them on the Respondent's out-of-work list.
Sorensen examined the union books of the two men which showed, inter alia, that
they were not seeking transfer into Local 507. Sorensen asked them who told them
they could register on Local 507's out-of-work list and they replied, Leiby. Sorensen
took their union books into an interior office and presently returned and advised
them that he could not register them; he told them to go to their own union hall
(Local 300) and find work there. They remained in the hiring hall for some 20
to 30 minutes and during this time heard the dispatcher announce three jobs for
dispatch, jobs which they were qualified to fill, and jobs not claimed by any appli-
cant for employment then in the hall. Inasmuch as their names had not been placed
on the out-of-work list they were ineligible to claim these jobs.
After leaving the hiring hall Ferrell and Bates communicated with Leiby, ex-
plained what had happened, and Leiby advised or directed them to return to the
offices of Local 507 the following morning and see James V. Brimhall, then the
local's recording secretary and field manager.
They did so, met with Brimhall, and
advised the latter that they wished to be placed on Respondent's out-of-work list.
Brimhall wanted to know who told them they could get on the list and they replied,
Leiby.
Brimhall said that Leiby was not running his business and he could not
put everybody in ,the country on the list. Brimhall examined their union books, wrote
down their names and book numbers, and told them that if they wished to do so
they could return the following Monday and speak to Business Representative
Mueller
Ferrell and Bates left Respondent's office and did not return.
According
to them, McGinnis and Sorensen were present during their discussion with Brimhall.
Further according to them, at no time were they advised that they had been placed
on the out-of-work list.
Turning now to Respondent's position, Leiby and McGinnis, mentioned in the
testimony of Ferrell and Bates, did not testify.
The undisputed testimony with re-
spect to them is credited.
Conflict, however, develops in the testimony of Brimhall
and Sorensen.
Respondent introduced the register of its out-of-work list for the pertinent period
and this register shows Ferrell and Bates to have been entered on the said list on
March 14 Sorensen, who had no independent recollection of having met with Ferrell
and Bates or either, testified that the entries were made in his handwriting.
The
register also shows that on March 14 men were dispatched from the out-of-work
list on Al available jobs
Brimball and Sorensen each testified that normally, during
this period, there would be some 200 to 300 men on the out-of-work list on hand
during the dispatching, and that some 500 to 600 names were ahead of Ferrell and
Bates on the list.
Brimhall testified that he saw Ferrell and Bates at his office, rot on the morning
of March 15 as they testified, but on the mornine of March 14.
He testified they told
him they wanted clearance for the Jones iob, that they beloneed to Local 300, and
that their names were on the out-of-work list.
He further testified, however, "I told
them that they would have to register on the out-of-work list before we would send
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them out to anybody, and then they would have to go out when their name came
to the top of the list."
Questioned, "On the day that you spoke with them, did they
put or have their name put on the out-of-work list?" he testified, "They went in the
back and put their names on the list between 7:30 and 8 o'clock."
He admitted
that Ferrell and Bates may have shown him their union books and that he may have
taken down their numbers; denied that Leiby's name was mentioned; and testified,
in effect, that he fixed the date of March 14 as the date on which he saw them
on the basis of the out-of-work list which shows them as registered on March 14.
Brimhall and Sorensen testified that it was not uncommon for members of other
locals to seek registration on Respondent's out-of-work list, and Sorensen testified
that he was instructed to register every person on the list who sought such registration.
The lists introduced in evidence show the registration of a nonunion member and
his later dispatch to a job, and the registration of persons other than Ferrell and
Bates, affiliated with Local 300, and their subsequent dispatch on jobs.
However,
registrants other than Ferrell and Bates affiliated with Local 300 or other locals,
are shown to have had traveling or transfer cards indicating a change in their affilia-
tion to Local 507.
The register further shows that Ferrell and Bates were called
up for dispatch on a date in April and not being present to answer the call, their
names were scratched from the out-of-work lists, according to uniform practice.
It is no easy task to resolve an issue of credibility when all witnesses testifying are
of good presence and, with few exceptions, firm in their respective versions of the
material incidents.
Both Ferrell and Bates were unshaken on intensive and expert
cross-examination, and their testimony did not appear to be fabricated in any part.
I am of the opinion that when they first went to Respondent's offices they were
primarily interested in getting clearance for the Jones job; I am also of the opinion
that they believed they were unlawfully denied such clearance.
Their charges which
initiated this proceeding allege the said denial to have been violative of the Act.
These same charges also alleged, however, an unlawful refusal by Local 507 to
register them on the out-of-work list, and the General Counsel, after an investigation
of the charges, alleged a violation only with respect to the latter, thereby conceding,
insofar as this hearing is concerned, the lawfulness of the refusal of clearance on
the Jones job.2 I cannot say that because the moving cause of their initial visit to
Respondent's offices was a desire for clearance on the Jones job, they could have had
no other purpose in going there and did not seek registration on the out-of-work
list for any other purpose
In their conversation with Leiby on March 13, Leiby
expressed his doubt that they could be cleared for the Jones job but suggested
that they register on Respondent's out-of-work list.
Pursuant to this advice they
returned to the offices of the Respondent, according to their testimony, on the follow-
ing morning, March 14. Inasmuch as records produced by Respondent show them
as registered on March 14, and since they would have been registered only on
request, Respondent's own records amount to an admission that the request was
made on that date. If, as they testified, they were refused clearance on the . ones
job-and that testimony is undenied-they must have sought registration on the cut-
of-work lists for referral to other work.
All of this is contrary to what appears
to be Respondent's contention; namely, that their visits to Respondent's offices were
solely in the interest of obtaining clearance for the Jones job
I find that they applied to Sorensen for registration on the Respondent's out-of-work
list on March 14, as they testified they did Inasmuch as Sorensen had no independent
recollection of the incident and Ferrell and Bates both did and appeared to be
testifying truthfully, I further find, as testified to by Ferrell and Bates, that Sorensen
after examining their union books which showed that they were not transferring into
Local 507, told them that he could not register them and that they should go to their
own union hall (Local 300) and find work there
T also resolve the conflict in testimony between Ferrell and Bates on the one hand,
and Brimhall on the other, by crediting Ferrell and Bates. It is undenied that after
havina been refused registration by Sorensen, they communicated with Leiby about
I Desnite the fact that the complaint contains no allegations that the Respondent un-
lawfully refused Ferrell and Bates clearance on the Jones job, and that the General
Counsel clearly and uneouivocally, near the opening of the hearing stated that he made
no contention of unlawful conduct with respect to the said denial of clearance, Respond-
ent's attorney throughout the hearing, and repeatedly, attempted to make an issue of
the said denial of clearance, this, apparently, because the name "W. F Jones Construction"
appears in the title of the case. I do not know why the name appears in the title of
the case, or why it was not struck therefrom, but Respondent was in no way misled or
prejudiced in the matter, both because of the allegations in the complaint itself and the
General Counsel's clear and unequivocal opening statement
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the refusal and were advised by him to see Brimhall.
They testified that they did
so on the following morning, March 15. Brimhall testified that the interview occurred
between 7 and 8 a.m. on March 14, but this testimony as to the date appears to have
rested, not on his independent recollection, but on Respondent's out-of-work register.
Further, if Ferrell and Bates saw Sorensen on March 14 and were refused registration
by him, as they testified, and later on that same day communicated with Leiby,
they could hardly have been in Brimhall's office between 7 and 8 on this date.
There is no reasonable explanation of their seeking out Brimhall except that given in
their testimony: their consultation with Leiby.
Brimhall testified, first, that Ferrell
and Bates told him that they were seeking clearance for the Jones job and also
that their names were on the out-of-work register, and, second, that he told them
they would have to register on the out-of-work list and after they left his office
"They went in the back and put their name on the list between 7:30 and 8 o'clock."
Admittedly, he did not follow them and see them actually registered.
He admitted
seeing their union books and that he may have taken down the numbers of their
respective books, for what purpose he did not say.
According to the credited testi-
mony of Ferrell and Bates, both Respondent's McGinnis and Sorensen were present
during this interview, but Sorensen, having no independent recollection of applica-
tions for registration, made by Ferrell and Bates, could offer no corroboration of
Brimhall's testimony, and McGinnis did not testify.
Further, inasmuch as this
interview occurred at Leiby's suggestion, I find it much more likely that his name
was brought into the conversation, as testified to by Ferrell and Bates, than that it
was not, as testified to by Brimhall.
Upon the entire evidence, as well as on my observation of the witnesses while
the latter were testifying, I find that Ferrell and Bates neither told Brimhall that their
names had been registered on the out-of-work list, nor were told by Brimhall that
they could have their names placed on the list I find, as testified to by Ferrell and
Bates, that Brimhall, on being informed that they were there at the suggestion of
Leiby, told them that Leiby was not running his business and he could not put every-
body in the country on Local 507's out-of-work list, and further told them that
"if they wished to do so," they could return on the following Monday and speak to
Business
Representative
Mueller.
This was neither promise nor assurance that
following such an interview their names would be added to the out-of-work list.
Having been advised by Sorensen on the previous day, March 14, that he would not
place their names on the out-of-work list, and now, on March 15, being told by
Brimhall that he could not put "everybody" on the list, Ferrell and Bates had every
reason to believe that it would be futile for them to follow Brimhall's suggestion
that they could return and speak to Respondent's Mueller on the following Monday
"if they wished to do so " Just how, and under what circumstances, their names
were actually placed on the out-of-work list I do not know, but I am convinced and
find that at no time were they informed by the Respondent that their names had
been placed on that list. If Sorensen had so informed them on March 14, there
would have been no occasion for them to have communicated thereafter with Leiby,
or to have sought an interview with Brimhall on the following day. If they were
informed by Brimhall that they could put their names on the list, there is no
reasonable explanation why they did not thereafter appear at the hiring hall for
dispatching, inasmuch as they were seeking work.
Obviously, the placing of an
applicant's name on the out-of-work list while giving the said applicant every reason
to believe that registration was refused him, does not satisfy the requirements of the
law with respect to hiring halls.
Respondent was under a duty not only to register
Ferrell and Bates on its out-of-work list, with all reasonable dispatch, but to do it
in such manner that they would reasonably know or assume that they had been
registered.
Under the circumstances of this case registration on the out-of-work
list was a sham and a nullity.
I find that by refusing properly to register Ferrell and Bates on its out-of-work
list, the Respondent, as alleged in the complaint, engaged in conduct violative of
Section8(b)(1)(A) of the Act
On the evidence afforded me I am unable to find, as urged by the General Counsel,
that Ferrell and Bates, had they been properly registered on the out-of-work list
when they first applied. would have been dispatched on the morning of March 14
Admittedly they were in the hiring hall on that occasion for no more than some
20 to 30 minutes and there is no reason to question the evidence that had they been
properly registered there still would have been some hundreds on the out-of-work
list who would have had priority over them for work assignments. It is of course
possible that none of these would have qualified for the jobs which Ferrell and Bates
testified they heard called. with no takers, while they were in the hiring hall, but
in view of the brevity of their stay in the hall and Respondent's records which show
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men dispatched to all available jobs on that date, I regard this testimony too incon-
clusive to ground the finding sought by the General Counsel.
However, Respond-
ent's records show that on a date in April Ferrell and Bates were reached on the
out-of-work list and would have been dispatched had they been in the hiring hall
on that date.
Having held that the Respondent never placed their names on the
out-of-work list in a proper and lawful manner, it must follow, and is found, that
the Respondent attempted to cause, and did cause, members of the Associations
to discriminate against Ferrell and Bates in violation of Section 8(a)(3) of the
Act, thereby engaging in unfair labor practices within the meaning of Section 8(b) (2)
of the Act.
IV. THE EFFECT OF THE UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES UPON COMMERCE
The activities of the Respondent set forth in section III, above, occurring in
connection with the operations of the Employers described in section I, above, have
a close, intimate, and substantial relation to trade, traffic, and commerce among the
several States, and, such of them as have been found to be unfair labor practices, tend
to lead to labor disputes burdening and obstructing commerce and the free flow of
commerce.3
V. THE REMEDY
Having found that the Respondent engaged in conduct violative of Section
8(b)(1)(A) and (2) of the Act, I shall recommend that the Respondent cease and
desist from engaging in such conduct, and take the following affirmative action:
1. Restore the names of George S. Ferrell, Jr., and Lloyd Bates to its out-of-work
list, in the order in which the said names would appear had they been properly
registered on March 14, 1962, and retained on the list thereafter.
2. Within 5 days from the date of the receipt of this Intermediate Report and
Recommended Order, notify Ferrell and Bates, respectively, that their names have
been placed on the said out-of-work list, in the order above specified.
3. Make whole Ferrell and Bates and each of them for any loss of pay he may
have suffered because of the Respondent's refusal to place his name on the said
out-of-work list, by the payment to each of them of a sum of money equal to that
which he would have earned as wages on dispatch from the said out-of-work list,
from March 14, 1962, to the date on which the Respondent notifies Ferrell and Bates
that their names have been restored, in proper order, to the said out-of-work list,
less his net earnings, if any, during said period.
Loss of pay shall be computed upon
a quarterly basis in the manner established by the Board in F.
W. Woolworth
Company, 90 NLRB 289.
Upon the basis of the foregoing findings of fact, and upon the entire record in
the case, I make the following:
CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
1. The Associations, and their members, each of them, are, respectively, and at
all times material to the issues in this proceeding have been, employers within the
meaning of Section 2(2) of the Act, engaged in commerce within the meaning of
Section 2(6) and (7) of the Act.
2. The Respondent is a labor organization within the meaning of Section 2(5)
of the Act.
3. By its refusal on March 14, 1962, to place the names of George S. Ferrell, Jr.,
and Lloyd Bates on its out-of-work list, thereby making them -available for dispatch
through Respondent's hiring hall, because the said Ferrell and Bates were not mem-
bers of the Respondent, the Respondent has engaged in -and is engaging in conduct
violative of Section 8(b)(1)(A) of the Act.
4. By its failure and refusal to dispatch Ferrell and Bates from its out-of-work
list, at such time or times as they would have been dispatched had their names
properly and lawfully been entered on the said out-of-work list, the Respondent
has engaged in and is engaging in conduct violative of Section 8(b) (2) of the Act.
5. The aforesaid unfair labor practices affect commerce within the meaning of
Section 2(6) and (7) of the Act.
It has long been settled, contrary to Respondent's contention at the hearing, that in
order to assert jurisdiction it need not be shown that a labor dispute disrupting commerce
has actually arisen; commerce is "affected" within the meaning of the Act, if the unfair
labor practices engaged in tend to lead to labor disputes burdening and obstructing com-
merce.
It can hardly be questioned that a labor dispute arising over the Respondent's
unlawful administration of the hiring hall provisions of its contract with the Association,
would affect commerce, as that term has been construed In the decisions.
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RECOMMENDED ORDER
Upon the basis of the foregoing findings of fact and conclusions of law, and
pursuant to Section 101(c) of the National Labor Relations Act, as amended, it is
recommended that the Respondent, Local 507, International Mod Carriers' Building
and Common Laborers' Union of America, AFL-CIO, its officers, agents, repre-
sentatives, successors, and assigns, shall:
1. Cease and desist from:
(a) Failing and/or refusing, in the administration of the hiring hall provisions
of its contract with the Associations, to register in a proper and lawful manner on
its out-of-work list, upon proper application, any individual or individuals because
they are not affiliated with the Respondent, or in any like manner restraining and
coercing employees in the exercise of rights guaranteed them in Section 7 of the Act.
(b) Causing or attempting to cause members of the Associations to discriminate
against employees in violation of Section 8(a)(3) of the Act, by failing and/or
refusing to dispatch from its out-of-work list, any individual or individuals who have
been improperly and unlawfully denied placement on the said out-of-work list.
2. Take the following affirmative action designed to effectuate the policies of the
Act:
(a) Forthwith register on its out-of-work list, in the manner set forth in the sec-
tion above titled "The Remedy," the names of George S. Ferrell, Jr., and Lloyd
Bates.
(b) Within 5 days from the receipt of this Intermediate Report and Recommended
Order notify the said Ferrell and Bates that their names have been registered on
Respondent's out-of-work list, in the manner set forth above.
(c) Make whole Ferrell and Bates for any loss of pay suffered by them because
of Respondent's failure and/or refusal properly and lawfully to register their names
on its out-of-work list, in the manner set forth in the section above titled "The
Remedy "
(d) Post at its hiring hall, copies of the attached notice marked "Appendix." 4
Copies of said notice, to be furnished by the Regional Director for the
Twenty-first Region, Los Angeles, California, shall, after being duly signed by Local
507's representative or agent, be posted immediately upon receipt thereof, and be
maintained for 60 consecutive days thereafter, in conspicuous places, including all
places where notices to applicants for registration on the out-of-work list are cus-
tomarily posted.
Reasonable steps shall be taken by Local 507 to insure that said
notices are not altered, defaced, or covered by any other material.
(e) Notify the Regional Director for the Twenty-first Region, in writing, within
20 days from the date of this Intermediate Report and Recommended Order, what
steps the Respondent has taken to comply herewith.5
4 In the event that this Recommended Order be adopted by the Board, the words "A Deci-
tsion and Order" shall be substituted for the words "The Recommendations of a Trial
Examiner" in the notice In the further event that the Board's Order be enforced by a
decree of a United States Court of Appeals, the words "Pursuant to a Decree of the
United States Court of Appeals, Enforcing an Order" shall be substituted for the words
"Pursuant to a Decision and Order"
I In the event that this Recommended Order be adopted by the Board, this provision
shall be modified to read, "Notify said Regional Director, in writing, within 10 days
from the receipt of this Order, what steps the Respondent has taken to comply herewith."
APPENDIX
NOTICE TO ALL APPLICANTS FOR REGISTRATION ON LOCAL 507 INTERNATIONAL
HOD CARRIERS' BUILDING AND COMMON LABORERS' UNION OF AMERICA, AFL-
CIO, OUT-OF-WORK LIST
Pursuant to the recommendations of a Trial Examiner of the National Labor Re-
lations Board, and in order to effectuate the policies of the National Labor Relations
Act, we hereby notify you that:
WE WILL NOT by refusing to register on our out-of-work list in a proper and
lawful manner, or in any like or related manner, restrain and coerce employees
in the exercise of rights guaranteed in Section 7 of the National Labor Re-
lations Act.
WE WILL NOT by refusing to dispatch employees improperly and unlawfully
denied placement on our out-of-work list, or in any like or related manner.
cause, or attempt to cause, members of Associated General Contractors of
America, Southern California Chapter; Building Contractors Association, Inc.;
LOCAL 445, INT'L BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS, ETC. 1097
Engineering and Grading Contractors Association , Inc.; and Home Builders
Association of Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura Counties, to discriminate
against employees in violation of Section 8(a)(3) of the National Labor Rela-
tions Act.
WE WILL make whole George S. Ferrell, Jr., and Lloyd Bates for any loss
of pay they may have suffered from having been refused dispatch in a proper
and lawful manner from our out-of-work list.
LOCAL 507 INTERNATIONAL HOD CARRIERS ' BUILDING
AND COMMON LABORERS'
UNION OF AMERICA,
AFL-CIO,
Labor Organization.
Dated-------------------
By-------------------------------------------
(Representative )
( Title)
This notice must remain posted for 60 consecutive days from the date of posting,
and must not be altered , defaced, or covered by any other material.
Employees may communicate directly with the Board's Regional Office, 849
South Broadway, Los Angeles 14, California, Telephone No. Richmond 9-4711,
Extension 1031, if they have any question concerning this notice or compliance with
its provisions.
Local 445, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs,
Warehousemen and Helpers of America and Colony Liquor
Distributors, Inc.; Colonial Carriers, Inc.
Case No. 3-CC-179.
February 6, 1963
DECISION AND ORDER
Upon unfair labor practice charges filed on July 27,1962, by Colony
Liquor Distributors, Inc., and Colonial Carriers, Inc., herein referred
to collectively as the Charging Party or as Colony, against the Re-
spondent, Local 445, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauf-
feurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, the General Counsel
of the National Labor Relations Board, by the Regional Director for
the Third Region, issued an amended complaint alleging that the
Respondent had engaged in and was engaging in unfair labor prac-
tices within the meaning of Section 8(b) (4) (ii) (B) of the Act.
Copies of the complaint, charges, and notice of hearing were served
upon the Respondent and the Charging Party.
With respect to the unfair labor practices, the complaint alleged
that by picketing at the premises of retail liquor stores, hotels, and
restaurants, all of which are persons and employers within the mean-
ing of Section 8(b) (4) of the Act, the Respondent has threatened,
coerced, and restrained these persons and other persons, with an ob-
ject of forcing and requiring them to cease doing business with
Colony.
Thereafter, the Respondent filed an answer denying the ma-
terial allegations of the complaint.
On October 26, 1962, all parties entered into a "Motion To Transfer
Proceeding to the Board and Stipulations," waiving a hearing and
the taking of testimony before a Trial Examiner, the making of find-
ings of fact and conclusions of law by a Trial Examiner, and the
140 NLRB No. 105.