Court Opinion

ID: 9426092
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:16:49.40763+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:59.072577
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*638Mr. Justice Douglas,
dissenting.
While I join the opinion of Mr. Justice Stewart, I write to emphasize what is, for me, the determinative feature of the case. Throughout this litigation, Connell has maintained only that Local 100 coerced it into signing the subcontracting agreement. With the complaint so drawn, I have no difficulty in concluding that the union’s conduct is regulated solely by the labor laws. The question of antitrust immunity would be far different, however, if it were alleged that Local 100 had conspired with mechanical subcontractors to force nonunion subcontractors from the market by entering into exclusionary agreements with general contractors like Connell. An arrangement of that character was condemned in Allen Bradley Co. v. Electrical Workers, 325 U. S. 797 (1945), which held that Congress did not intend “to immunize labor unions who aid and abet manufacturers and traders in violating the Sherman Act,” id., at 810. Were such a conspiracy alleged, the multiemployer bargaining agreement between Local 100 and the mechanical subcontractors would unquestionably be relevant. See Mine Workers v. Pennington, 381 U. S. 657, 673 (1965) (concurring opinion); Meat Cutters v. Jewel Tea Co., 381 U. S. 676, 737 (1965) (dissenting opinion). But since Connell has never alleged or attempted to show any conspiracy between Local 100 and the subcontractors, I agree that Connell’s remedies, if any, are provided exclusively by the labor laws.