Aladdin Industries, Inc.

17 Cited authorities

Steelworkers v. Warrior Gulf Co.
363 U.S. 574 (1960) Cited 5,612 times 6 Legal Analyses
Holding that grievance machinery “is at the very heart of the system of industrial self-government” and the courts should not deny an order to arbitrate “unless it may be said with positive assurance that the arbitration clause is not susceptible of an interpretation that covers the asserted dispute”
Republic Aviation Corp. v. Board
324 U.S. 793 (1945) Cited 495 times 34 Legal Analyses
Finding an absence of special circumstances where employer failed to introduce evidence of "unusual circumstances involving their plants."
Labor Board v. Mackay Co.
304 U.S. 333 (1938) Cited 535 times 4 Legal Analyses
Holding that an employer may replace striking workers with others to carry on business so long as the employer is not guilty of unfair labor practices
Labor Board v. Steelworkers
357 U.S. 357 (1958) Cited 72 times
In United Steelworkers, the Court warned that the NLRA "does not command that labor organizations as a matter of abstract law, under all circumstances, be protected in the use of every possible means of reaching the minds of individual workers, nor that they are entitled to use a medium of communication simply because the employer is using it."
Hendrix Manufacturing Company v. N.L.R.B
321 F.2d 100 (5th Cir. 1963) Cited 91 times
Permitting the Board to consider the employer's clear expression of opposition to the union as background in order to determine motivation for management's conduct
N.L.R.B. v. Dan River Mills, Incorporated
274 F.2d 381 (5th Cir. 1960) Cited 61 times
In N.L.R.B. v. Dan River Mills, Inc., 5 Cir., 274 F.2d 381, the unit consisted of 332 employees of which 167 constituted a majority.
Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. v. Phœnix Mut. Life Ins.
167 F.2d 983 (7th Cir. 1948) Cited 68 times 1 Legal Analyses
Supporting employees' entitlement to write a letter complaining about supervisor
Caterpillar Tractor v. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd.
230 F.2d 357 (7th Cir. 1956) Cited 25 times
Stating that employer can prohibit employees from wearing buttons emblazoned with the slogan "Don't be a Scab" because of slogan's inherent tension to incite unrest and resentment; however, the restriction does not include "passive inoffensive advertisement of organizational aims and interests . . . which in no way interferes with discipline and production"
N.L.R.B. v. Dal-Tex Optical Company
310 F.2d 58 (5th Cir. 1962) Cited 17 times
In NLRB v. Dal-Tex Optical Co., 310 F.2d 58, 60-61 (CA5 1962), the court sustained the Board, 131 N.L.R.B. 715, 721 (1961), in affording protection to an employee, Whitaker, who appeared but did not testify at a Board hearing.
Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. v. Robbins Tire
161 F.2d 798 (5th Cir. 1947) Cited 35 times
In N.L.R.B. v. Robbins Tire Rubber Co., 5 Cir., 161 F.2d 798, 800, where the proportion of the witnesses against, to those for, the examiner's conclusions was far greater than it is here, we held exactly to the contrary of this contention.

Aladdin Industries, Inc.

17 Cited authorities

Finding an absence of special circumstances where employer failed to introduce evidence of "unusual circumstances involving their plants."

Holding that an employer may replace striking workers with others to carry on business so long as the employer is not guilty of unfair labor practices

Permitting the Board to consider the employer's clear expression of opposition to the union as background in order to determine motivation for management's conduct

In N.L.R.B. v. Dan River Mills, Inc., 5 Cir., 274 F.2d 381, the unit consisted of 332 employees of which 167 constituted a majority.

Supporting employees' entitlement to write a letter complaining about supervisor

In NLRB v. Dal-Tex Optical Co., 310 F.2d 58, 60-61 (CA5 1962), the court sustained the Board, 131 N.L.R.B. 715, 721 (1961), in affording protection to an employee, Whitaker, who appeared but did not testify at a Board hearing.

In N.L.R.B. v. Robbins Tire Rubber Co., 5 Cir., 161 F.2d 798, 800, where the proportion of the witnesses against, to those for, the examiner's conclusions was far greater than it is here, we held exactly to the contrary of this contention.