Task: songer_casetyp1_2-2

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals.
Your task is to identify the issue in the case, that is, the social and/or political context of the litigation in which more purely legal issues are argued. Put somewhat differently, this field identifies the nature of the conflict between the litigants. The focus here is on the subject matter of the controversy rather than its legal basis.
Your task is to determine the specific issue in the case within the broad category of "civil rights". 

ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.
In this case, brought by appellants, former employees, against their private employers, alleging violation of their civil rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, appellants may be entitled to high marks for imagination, but nothing else. Defendant appellees, Conagra, Inc. and Molinos de Puerto Rico, Inc., its wholly-owned subsidiary, hereafter, collectively, defendant, found itself in a labor dispute. Appellants sought to invoke the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Board, but were turned down on the ground that they were supervisors, 29 U.S.C. § 164(a), and, therefore, not employees entitled to the protection of the National Labor Relations Act. The Puerto Rico Labor Relations Board also refused to issue a complaint, apparently on jurisdictional grounds. Briefly, the asserted underlying facts were that appellants became engaged in a dispute with defendant because of its failure to recognize their union. One of appellants was discharged because of his overvigorous behavior. The others thereupon resigned in protest. Appellants now allege that their civil rights, notably their constitutional rights of free speech and association, but also of property, were infringed.
Passing the question whether appellants could be thought to allege any rights at all, we are at a loss to see where it could be thought that defendant’s actions involved any state action, a basic requirement for recovery under section 1983. Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co., 1974, 419 U.S. 345, 95 S.Ct. 449, 42 L.Ed.2d 477; Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co., 1970, 398 U.S. 144, 90 S.Ct. 1598, 26 L.Ed.2d 142. The Puerto Rico Labor Relations Board’s mere refusal to protest a private action is not state action, see Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co., supra; cf. NLRB v. Edward G. Budd Mfg. Co., 6 Cir., 1948, 169 F.2d 571, cert. denied sub nom. Foreman’s Assoc. of America v. Edward G. Budd Mfg. Co., 335 U.S. 908, 69 S.Ct. 411, 93 L.Ed. 441, the more particularly because that Board is without power to prohibit the discharge of supervisors because of their union membership. Beasley v. Food Fair of North Carolina, Inc., 1974, 416 U.S. 653, 94 S.Ct. 2023, 40 L.Ed.2d 443. Appellants offer no suggestion as to how anything the named defendant did, or did not do, involves state action. The discussion of involuntary servitude prior to the Civil War is scarcely pertinent. At best, the case at bar involves the continuation, vel non, of private employment voluntary on both sides.
We have studied the briefs. No oral argument could breathe life into this case. The judgment is affirmed under Local Rule 12.
Actions involving only the federal government are beyond the scope of section 1983. District of Columbia v. Carter, 1973, 409 U.S. 418, 92 S.Ct. 683, 30 L.Ed.2d 661.

Question: What is the specific issue in the case within the general category of "civil rights"?
A. civil rights claims by prisoners and those accused of crimes
B. voting rights, race discrimination, sex discrimination
C. other civil rights
Answer:

Answer: B