Case Name: INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS, CHAUFFEURS, WAREHOUSEMEN & HELPERS OF AMERICA, LOCAL UNION NO. 310, Petitioner, v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Respondent, Shamrock Dairy, Inc., Intervenor; NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Petitioner, v. SHAMROCK DAIRY, INC., Respondent
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1960-06-16
Citations: 280 F.2d 665
Docket Number: Nos. 14357, 14411
Parties: INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS, CHAUFFEURS, WAREHOUSEMEN & HELPERS OF AMERICA, LOCAL UNION NO. 310, Petitioner, v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Respondent, Shamrock Dairy, Inc., Intervenor. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Petitioner, v. SHAMROCK DAIRY, INC., Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 280
Pages: 665–673

Head Matter:
INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS, CHAUFFEURS, WAREHOUSEMEN & HELPERS OF AMERICA, LOCAL UNION NO. 310, Petitioner, v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Respondent, Shamrock Dairy, Inc., Intervenor. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Petitioner, v. SHAMROCK DAIRY, INC., Respondent.
Nos. 14357, 14411.
United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.
June 16, 1960.
Washington, Circuit Judge, dissented.
Mr. Herbert S. Thatcher, Washington, D. C., was on the pleadings for petitioner in No. 14357.
Messrs. Thomas J. McDermott, Associate Gen. Counsel, National Labor Relations Board, Marcel Mallet-Prevost, Asst. Gen. Counsel, National Labor Relations Board, and Melvin Pollack, Atty., National Labor Relations Board, were on the pleadings for respondent in No. 14357 and petitioner in No. 14411.
Messrs. Arthur M. Kuhl, Washington, D. C., Richard G. Kleindienst, Phoenix, Ariz., and Gerard D. Reilly, Washington, D. C., were on the pleadings for inter-venor in No. 14357 and respondent in No. 14411.
Before Wilbur K. Miller, Washington and Burger, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
ORDER
PER CURIAM.
These cases came on for hearing and were remanded to the Board for further proceedings and are now before us on the motion of petitioner in case No. 14,357 for modification of the decree of the National Labor Relations Board and for enforcement of the decree as modified, on the opposition of Shamrock Dairy, Inc., of the reply of the Board to the petitioner's motion, on the petitioner's response to the reply of the Board and on the response of Shamrock Dairy, Inc., to the Board's reply.
Having considered all the foregoing pleadings, and being of the view that the drivers ceased to be employees and became independent contractors when they signed contracts for distributorship; that the six drivers who did not sign as distributors should not be reinstated because their discharge was the result of a "reduction in forceand that, although Shamrock Dairy, Inc., technically violated the Act in failing to give the Union an opportunity to discuss the independent distributors' plan, the court concludes that the order of the Board entered in this proceeding on August 13, 1959, should be and it is affirmed. Counsel for the Board are directed to present within ten days a proposed enforcement decree.