Court Opinion

ID: 9443051
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 19:09:28.9877+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:29:21.269523
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PICKETT, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
I cannot agree that the record in this case meets the substantial evidence test as required by the Taft-flartley Act. In Universal Camera Corp. v. N. L. R. B., 340 U.S. 474, 490, 71 S.Ct. 45.6, 466, 95 L.Ed. 456, it was stated that under the Act Courts of Appeal must assume more responsibility for the reasonableness and the fairness of Labor Board decisions than they had in the past. It was said that this “responsi*425bility is not less real because it is limited to enforcing the requirement that evidence appear substantial when viewed, on the record as a whole, * * *. The Board’s findings are entitled to respect; but they must nonetheless be set aside when the record before a Court of Appeals clearly precludes the Board’s decision from being justified by a fair estimate of the worth of the testimony * * The evidence of unfair labor practices on the part of the respondents to say the most is extremely meager. The respondents did not engage in a strike and the Board found that the activities of their representatives were not responsible for any strike or work stoppage. Considering the evidence most favorable to the Board, no more was done than to suggest that a plumber and an electrician refuse to complete the installation of equipment which was manufactured in a non-union shop.
The purpose of Sec. 8(b) (4) (A) of the Act is to outlaw concerted work' stoppages against neutral parties. Here there were no strikes or concerted work stoppages as a result of the activities of the respondents and according to my view of the evidence none was advocated. I think the facts are clearly within the rule of N. L. R. B. v. International Rice Milling Co., 341 U.S. 665, 71 S.Ct. 961, 95 L.Ed. 1277. See also, N. L. R. B. v. Service Trade Chauffeurs, Salesmen & Helpers, Local 145, 2 Cir., 191 F.2d 65.
I would deny the order of enforcement