Holding that employee who put name on union's looking-for-work list, searched for work through friends, reviewed want ads in local newspaper, and submitted one application on his own before obtaining referral through union had conducted reasonable search
In J.H. Rutter Rex Manufacturing Co., Inc. v. NLRB, 473 F.2d 223 (5th Cir. 1973), a group of claimants had worked at lower paying jobs following their unlawful discharges.
Rejecting the same argument because "the more reasonable inference is that the [e]mployer's discriminatory design ultimately failed, not that it wasn't tried"
29 U.S.C. § 151 Cited 5,095 times 34 Legal Analyses
Finding that "protection by law of the right of employees to organize and bargain collectively safeguards commerce" and declaring a policy of "encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining"