Court Opinion

ID: 9445058
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 21:18:58.795877+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:30:06.798217
License: Public Domain

SOPER, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
The opinion of the court is in direct conflict with that of the Ninth Circuit in N. L. R. B. v. Potlatch Forests, 189 F.2d 82, which is not distinguishable in any essential feature, and presents in my opinion a reasonable approach to the problem under consideration. I base this dissent on the following passage from that opinion: at page 86.
“In the instant case, therefore, the ‘discrimination’ between replacements and strikers is not an unfair labor practice despite a tendency to discourage union activities, because the benefit conferred upon the replacements is a benefit reasonably appropriate for the employer to confer in attempting ‘to protect and continue his business by supplying places left vacant by strikers.’ *163Hence, we think the specific question posed here has been answered by the Supreme Court by recognizing that an employer attempting to fill a number of positions must be able to offer a substantial degree of security (as well as attractive wages), and that an employer may properly assure the replacements that ‘their places might be permanent.’ If there are not enough jobs to go around at the time the strike is settled the rights of replacements prevail over strikers.
“While the Mackay Radio case [304 U.S. 333, 58 S.Ct. 904, 82 L.Ed. 1381] can be formally distinguished on the ground that the Supreme Court in that case was considering a shortage of jobs at the time the strike was settled, rather than a shortage caused by a later curtailment of activities the assurance of permanent employment in the latter event is equally justifiable.”