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619 F2d 580 International Union United Automobile Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers and Its Local v. Rockwell International Corporation 619 F.2d 580
104 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 2050, 88 Lab.Cas. P 12,006
INTERNATIONAL UNION, UNITED AUTOMOBILE, AEROSPACE ANDAGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT WORKERS (UAW) AND ITS LOCAL1519, Plaintiffs-Appellants,v.ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee,andNational Labor Relations Board, Intervenor-Appellee.
Argued Feb. 6, 1980.Decided April 10, 1980.
On May 24, 1976, Rockwell filed an unfair labor practice charge with the NLRB premised on the Teamsters' picketing threat in violation of LMRA § 8(b)(4)(D), 29 U.S.C. § 158(b)(4)(D).1
The NLRB has express statutory authority to settle work assignment disputes. NLRB v. Radio & Television Broadcast Engineers Union, Local 1212, 364 U.S. 573, 81 S.Ct. 330, 5 L.Ed.2d 302 (1961). 29 U.S.C. § 158(b)(4)(D) makes it an unfair labor practice for a labor organization to threaten, coerce or restrain any employer for the purpose of forcing the employer to assign particular work to members of one union at the expense of another's members. 29 U.S.C. § 160(k) specifically states that whenever a person has engaged in a § 158(b)(4) (D) unfair labor practice, the NLRB is directed to determine the dispute.
29 U.S.C. § 160(k) states only one instance in which the NLRB is directed to defer to an arbitrator's award: when the Board has satisfactory evidence that the parties have adjusted or agreed upon methods for the voluntary adjustment of the dispute. "(S)ection 10(k) offers strong inducements to quarrelling unions to settle their differences by directing dismissal of unfair labor practice charges upon voluntary adjustment of jurisdictional disputes." 364 U.S. at 577, 81 S.Ct. at 333. In the present case, the Teamsters and the UAW have not attempted to settle their differences through a voluntary adjustment of the dispute. The arbitration proceedings between the UAW and Rockwell did not include the Teamsters union as a party.
Once the NLRB decides a work assignment dispute, its determination takes precedence over a contrary arbitrator's award. Carey v. Westinghouse Corp., 375 U.S. 261, 84 S.Ct. 401, 11 L.Ed.2d 320 (1964); NLRB v. Radio & Television Broadcast Engineers, supra; New Orleans Typographical Union No. 17 v. NLRB, 368 F.2d 755 (5th Cir. 1966). This is true regardless of which action was initiated first. Dock Loaders and Unloaders, ILA Local No. 854 v. Richeson & Sons, Inc., 280 F.Supp. 402 (E.D.La.1968). In Carey, the Court specifically noted that where a NLRB determination and an arbitrator's award conflict, the former's ruling would take precedence. Further, "(t)he superior authority of the Board may be invoked at any time." 375 U.S. at 272, 84 S.Ct. at 409. Accord, New Orleans Typographical, supra.
364 U.S. at 580-82, 81 S.Ct. at 335.
The Board also contends that respondent's interpretation of § 10(k) should be avoided because that interpretation completely vitiates the purpose of Congress to encourage the private settlement of jurisdictional disputes. This contention proceeds on the assumption that the parties to a dispute will have no incentive to reach a private settlement if they are permitted to adhere to their respective views until the matter is brought before the Board and then given the same opportunity to prevail which they would have had in a private settlement. Respondent disagrees with this contention and attacks the Board's assumption. We find it unnecessary to resolve this controversy for it turns upon the sort of policy determination that must be regarded as implicitly settled by Congress when it chose to enact § 10(k). Even if Congress has chosen the wrong way to accomplish its aim, that choice is binding both upon the Board and upon this Court. 364 U.S. at 583, 81 S.Ct. at 336.
The practicalities of the matter also support this conclusion. The UAW asserts that the Board's § 10(k) determination should not be treated as final because it needs the approval of the Court of Appeals to be enforceable. The court noted in Dock Loaders, Local 854, supra, 280 F.Supp. at 404:
"Should the Board disagree with the arbiter by ruling, for example, that the employees involved in the controversy are members of one bargaining unit or another, the Board's ruling would, of course, take precedence; and if the employer's actions had been in accord with that ruling, it would not be liable for damages under § 301." 375 U.S. at 272, 84 S.Ct. at 409. 280 F.Supp. at 405.
"To read Carey as (holding that the N.L.R.B.'s decision precludes a suit for damages sustained "prior to the work award") would operate to establish a rule which makes compliance with labor agreements optional with the parties and does violence to the policy considerations of the Act as announced in Lincoln Mills (Textile Workers v. Lincoln Mills, 353 U.S. 448, 77 S.Ct. 912, 1 L.Ed.2d 972) and the established jurisprudence thereunder."
See also, Local 7-210, Oil & Chemical Workers v. Union Tank Car Co., 475 F.2d 194 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, 414 U.S. 875, 94 S.Ct. 68, 38 L.Ed.2d 120 (1973).
(k) Hearings on jurisdictional strikes. Whenever it is charged that any person has engaged in an unfair labor practice within the meaning of paragraph (4)(D) of section 8(b) (29 USCS § 158(b)(4)(D)), the Board is empowered and directed to hear and determine the dispute out of which such unfair labor practice shall have arisen, unless, within ten days after notice that such charge has been filed, the parties to such dispute submit to the Board satisfactory evidence that they have adjusted, or agreed upon methods for the voluntary adjustment of the dispute. Upon compliance by the parties to the dispute with the decision of the Board or upon such voluntary adjustment of the dispute, such charge shall be dismissed