Court Opinion

ID: 9455035
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 19:06:55.160026+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:34:25.320607
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POWELL, District Judge
(concurring specially):
I would remand this case to the Board with direction to require arbitration. Industrial peace if attainable should come through settled policy of arbitration of all disputes such as this. But the law permits the Board to disregard the contract provisions. I agree with the dissent in N.L.R.B. v. Strong, 393 U.S. 357, 364, 89 S.Ct. 541, 21 L.Ed.2d 546 (1969).
“Arbitration is not a process which the Board is either equipped or qualified to follow. Those who are arbiters have special qualifications in a particular industry and come to know the common law of the shop (footnotes omitted). The jurisdiction of any agency or branch of government has a built-in impetus for growth and expansion. Seldom does a department restrict its powers narrowly and assume a self-denying attitude. The tendency is to construe express powers broadly. The organism grows by subtle and little-*205noticed extensions of authority. To students of government this phenomenon is as predictable as the operation of other so-called ‘laws.’4
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