Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO v. National Labor Relations Board

Summary

The Supreme Court reviewed an NLRB cease-and-desist order finding that petitioner unions violated § 8(b)(1)(A) of the National Labor Relations Act. The Court held that extending the order to employees of “any other employer” was unwarranted because the violations found involved only Ohio Consolidated Telephone Company, and it modified and affirmed the judgment.

Holdings

1. The NLRB may not generally restrain unlawful practices involving other employers that it neither found to have occurred nor persuasively related to the proven unlawful conduct.
2. The phrase "or any other employer" was unwarranted and had to be deleted from the NLRB's order; the order was affirmed as so modified.

Questions Presented

1. Whether the NLRB could extend its cease-and-desist order to conduct involving employees of any other employer when the unions had been found to have violated the Act only with respect to Ohio Consolidated Telephone Company.
2. Whether the order, after deletion of the phrase "in any manner" by the Sixth Circuit, was valid as applied to the phrase "or any other employer."

Disposition

other