Millwrights Local Union No. 1102, Carpenters

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Sep 13, 1966

160 N.L.R.B. 1061 (N.L.R.B. 1966)

MILLWRIGHTS LOCAL UNION NO. 1102, CARPENTERS 1061
in the bargaining unit described below with respect to rates of pay, hours of
employment and other conditions of employment, and, if an understanding is
reached, WE WILL embody such understanding in a signed contract. The bargain-
ing unit is.
All employees of the employer's scrap processing and warehouse steel op-
erations of Chattanooga, Tennessee, including the maid and all truckdrivers,
but excluding all office clerical employees, professional employees, inside
and outside salesmen, Siskin Memorial Foundation employees, guards,
and supervisors as defined in the Act.
WE WILL make whole each unfair labor practice striker for any loss of pay he
may have suffered by reason of our unfair labor practices.
WE WILL NOT in any other manner interfere with, restrain, or coerce our
employees in the exercise of their right to self-organization, to form labor organi-
zations, to join or assist the above-named or any other labor organization, to bar-
gain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, or to engage in
other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other
mutual aid or protection, or to refrain from any or all such activities except to
the extent that such rights may be affected by an agreement requiring member-
ship in a labor organization as a condition of employment, as authorized in Sec-
tion 8 (a)(3) of the Act.
SISKIN STEEL AND SUPPLY CO., INC,
Employer.
Dated------------------- By-------------------------------------------
(Representative) (Title)
This notice must remain posted for 60 consecutive days from the date of posting,
and must not be altered, defaced, or covered by any other material.
If employees have any question concerning this notice or compliance with its
provisions, they may communicate directly with the Board's Regional Office, 528
Peachtree-Seventh Building, 50 Seventh Street NE., Atlanta, Georgia 30323, Tele-
phone 526-5741.
Millwrights Local Union No. 1102, United Brotherhood of Car-
penters and Joiners of America, AFL-CIO; Carpenters District
Council of Detroit, Wayne and Oakland Counties and Vicinities,
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America,
AFL-CIO and Don Cartage Company
Millwrights Local Union No. 1102, United Brotherhood of Car-
penters and Joiners of America, AFL-CIO; Carpenters District
Council of Detroit, Wayne and Oakland Counties and Vicinities,
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America,
AFL-CIO; Detroit and Wayne County, Oakland and Macomb
Counties, Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council
and John Quinn . Gases 7-OD-97-1 wid and 3-!,, and 5. Sep-
tenaber 13.19GG
DECISION AND DETERMINATION OF DISPUTE
The Instant proceeding under Section 10(k) of the National Labor
Relations Act, as aniended, was initiated by charges filed by Don Car-
tage Company, lieretnaiter called Don Cartage, and John Quinn, an
individual, alleging that Millwrights Local Union No. 1102, United
160 NLRB No. 89.
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Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, AFL-CIO, here-
inafter called Millwrights 1102, Carpenters District Council of
Detroit, Wayne and Oakland Counties and Vicinities, United Brother-
hood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, AFL-CIO, hereinafter
called Carpenters Council, and Detroit and Wayne County, Oakland
and Macomb Counties, Michigan Building and Construction Trades
Council,, hereinafter referred to as the Building Trades Council or
BTC, violated Section 8(b) (4)'(D) of the Act by seeking, through
proscribed means to force or require Don Cartage and the Ternstedt
Division, General Motors, Detroit, Michigan, to assign particular
work to members of Millwrights 1102 rather than to members of Rig-
gers and Machinery Erectors, Machinery Movers Local No. 575,
International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron
Workers of America, AFL-CIO, hereinafter called Riggers 575. A
hearing was held on various dates from April 30 through July 31,
1964, before Hearing Officer Milton Fischer. On August 16, 1965, the
National Labor Relations Board issued a "Decision and Order
Approving Settlement Agreement and Quashing Notice of Hearing"'
based upon an agreement which appeared to settle the dispute. Don
Cartage and John Quinn thereafter sought court review of the fore-
going Decision and Order. On January 18, 1966, the United States
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia remanded the case to
the Board at the Board's request in order to take additional evidence
as to whether an agreed-upon method for the settlement of the disc
pute by all parties existed. Thereafter, a further hearing was held on
various dates from January 27 through February 2, 1966, before
Hearing Officer Fannie Boyls. On February 18, 1966, the Board
issued its Supplemental Decision 2 in which it found that no such
agreed-upon method of settlement existed, but adhered to its prior
Decision and Order Approving Settlement and Quashing Notice of
Hearing. On March 29, 1966, the Court of Appeals for the District
of Columbia set aside the Board's decisions in this case and remanded
the case to the Board "for consideration and determination of the
jurisdictional dispute as submitted to it." 3
1154 NLRB 513.
2157 NLRB 10.
$ Millwrights 1102 filed a motion before the Board asking for oral argument and for
the Board to take official notice of the so-called Goodfellow decision , an Opinion and
Decision in 1965 of the Appeals Board of the National Joint Board for the Settlement of
Jurisdictional Disputes in the Building and Construction Industry in the matter of
Chevrolet Spring and Bumper Plant , Livonia, Michigan. The Building and Construction
Trades Department, AFL-CIO, moved to intervene in these proceedings as amicua curiae
and to support Millwrights 1102's motion for oral argument Riggers 575 , Intervenor, and
Don Cartage filed briefs in opposition to these motions . The motions for oral argument
and the Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO's, motion to intervene
are hereby denied as the record and briefs herein adequately present the issues before the
Board and positions of the parties The motion regarding the Goodfellow decision will be
discussed below at the appropriate part of our Decision. , .`
MILLWRIGHTS LOCAL UNION NO. 1102, CARPENTERS 1063
Pursuant to the court order, we have examined the entire record
in this case and make 'the following findings:
I. THE EMPLOYER INVOLVED
Don Cartage, a Michigan corporation, and a member of the Michi-
gan Cartagemen's Association, Heavy Hauler Division,4 is engaged
in the business of moving and erecting heavy machinery and equip-
ment. Don Cartage annually, performs services valued in excess of
$500,000 within the State of Michigan for other companies which are
directly engaged in interstate commerce. We find that Don Cartage is
an employer engaged in commerce within the meaning of the Act,
and that it will effectuate the, policies of the Act to assert jurisdiction
in this proceeding.
H. THE LABOR ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED
The parties stipulated, and we find, that Millwrights 1102, Car-
penters Council, the Building Trades Council, and , Riggers Local
575 are labor organizations within the meaning of Section 2(5) of
the Act.
III. THE DISPUTE
A. Background
This dispute, which, in general terms, concerns certain work
involved in the erection of heavy machinery and equipment, is a fur-
ther outgrowth of a basic jurisdictional conflict that has existed
between Millwrights 1102 and Riggers 575 for over 20 years. During
this period, many unsuccessful efforts have been undertaken by the
interested unions to resolve that conflict, through procedures of the
Building and Construction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO and
the National Joint Board for Settlement of Jurisdictional Disputes,
as well as by means of on-the-job adjustments and agreements
between the two unions and their parent internationals. As back-
ground for a better understanding of the scope and nature of the dis-
pute, some of these efforts will be detailed at greater length.
In 1956, the general presidents of the parent internationals of the
disputing local unions appointed Dr. John T. Dunlop to investigate
the dispute and to formulate a solution. Dr. Dunlop interviewed
many interested parties, including some employers of members of
Millwrights 1102 and/or Riggers 575 and others who used their serv-
ices. Dr. Dunlop's efforts resulted in the so-called Dunlop Award,
* Michigan Cartagemen 's Association , Heavy Hauler Division , hereinafter called Inter-
venor , is a multiemployer bargaining association representing at the time of the bearing
Don Cartage and nine other employer-members, engaged in the same business as, Don
Cartage. Intervenor was permitted to'intervene on the basis of its collective -bargaining
agreement with Riggers 575, upon which Don Cartage relies , and, because all employer-
members of Intervenor are parties interested' in, the determination of, the dispute. .11
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which was issued in 1957 and which allocated to each disputant cer-
tain work concerning "the unloading, moving, handling, placing,
erecting, assembling, adjusting, aligning, and leveling of all machin-
ery and machine parts affecting Millwrights Local 1102 and Riggers
Local 575." The award further provided that if the local unions were
unable to apply the award at any specific job, each local would for-
ward a full report to its respective international president for final
settlement. The 'letter transmitting the award to the international
presidents of the respective unions, which -has been interpreted by
both unions his limitation on the scope of the award, stated :
The attached decision shall'only apply to new construction proj-
ects, to changeovers where other building and construction
crafts are customarily employed, and to changeovers and moving
of machinery, where both riggers and millwrights have custom-
arily been employed regardless of whether the contractor is a
general contractor or a rigging contractor.
This has been used as the definition of a "building trades" job.
The Dunlop Award was signed by Millwrights 1102 and Riggers
575 and their parent internationals on May 23, 1957, and has never
been renounced by the parties thereto.
On September 17, 1957, Intervenor, which was not signatory to the
Dunlop Award, notified the general president of International Asso-
ciation of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers, Riggers
575's parent International, that its employer-members found the
award to be unworkable. However, individual employer-members of
Intervenor on various occasions have agreed to abide by the award.
On October 16, 1957, Don Cartage signed an affidavit of agreement
to abide by the award during the course of a dispute similar to the
instant one and in which it had also filed Section 8(b) (4) (D)
'Charges.5 This affidavit of agreement did not contain any time period
over which it was to operate, and was canceled and terminated by
Don Cartage on April 5, 1960, by written notification to the Carpen-
ters Council.
Throughout the intervening years and up to the present time, the
various parties to the dispute have continued to assert claims to the
work, as reflected, for example, by the instant proceeding and by the
opinion of the Appeals Board of the National Joint Board for the
Settlement of Jurisdictional Disputes in the aforementioned Good-
fellow decision.°
5Don Cartage Co., Inc ( Millwrights Local 1102 , Carpenters ), 121 NLRB 101. In that
case the Board quashed its notice of hearing because Don Cartage specifically agreed to
be bound by the Dunlop Award
e The Goodfellow decision was introduced at the reopened hearing for the purpose of
proving that Intervenor was also bound to the Joint Board. Thereafter , as referred to
above, Millwrights 1102 filed a motion that the Board take official notice of that decision.
We hereby grant such motion and take official notice of its contents . See 5 U.S C. 1007(d).
MILLWRIGHTS LOCAL UNION NO. 1102, CARPENTERS 1065
B. The work in dispute
The notice of hearing in this proceeding defines the dispute as
involving the specific work of "aligning, leveling, and anchoring
machinery and equipment" 7 which had been, in general terms, dis-
mantled, moved, and erected. However, the parties agreed at the hear-
ing that any award made should go beyond the issues as defined in
the notice of hearing and further agreed to extend the scope of the
hearing so as to broaden the work assignment determination to
include the following work:
The removal of crating, blocking and bracing above the machine
skid, the opening of boxes of parts and the removal of protective
covering, the laying out, drilling and installing of anchor bolts
and nuts, the cleaning and dressing of machine surfaces and com-
ponent parts, bolting, aligning and unpackaging machines, the
handling of component parts of machines by hand and the bolt-
ing under those circumstances, the use of chainfalls and the
assembly of nonpackage machines except heavy machine tools
similar to heavy presses, installations relating to horizontal and
vertical surfaces, the final tightening, adjusting, leveling opera-
tion, packaging of machines, the removal of all anchor bolts and
nuts, and the dismantling of machinery.
The parties likewise indicated their desire to broaden the defined
locality of the dispute from that of Detroit, Michigan, to that of the
geographical area in which Riggers Local 575 and Millwrights 1102
have territorial jurisdiction.
The actual work dispute is, however, narrowed by the Millwrights'
specific jurisdictional claim. That claim is confined to the particular
job tasks awarded the Millwrights under the Dunlop Award which,
as noted above, applies only to "building trades" jobs as there defined.
The work performed by Don Cartage and other members of the
Intervenor for such projects constitutes a very narrow segment of the
total machinery moving and installation business in which they are
engaged. In the case of Don Cartage, for example, it is undisputed
that only 5 percent of the work it does in the 34-county area covered
by Riggers 575's territorial jurisdiction involves "building trades"
jobs. The remaining 95 percent of its work, although involving the
moving and setting of machinery, is concerned principally with so-
called "inplant maintenance" work, where the electrical, pipe, and
other connections are made by in-plant employees and construction
industry work is not deemed involved. The Millwrights make no
claim that such latter work should be assigned to it rather than the
7 The machinery varies in size from small drill presses weighing a ton or less to larger'
presses which may weigh up to 300 tons.
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Riggers. The Millwrights lay claim only to the 5 percent "building
trades" project work, or more precisely to that part of such work as
was awarded to Millwrights by the Dunlop Award, and this alone
is within the scope of the dispute now before us for determination."
C. The facts
On February 18, 1964, the Ternstedt Divison of General Motors
Corporation, hereinafter called Ternstedt, awarded Don Cartage, a
specialty rigging contractor, a $400,000 contract to "load, transport,
unload, position according to print, level, anchor, and install" machin-
ery and equipment by moving same from Ternstedt's main plant
to a newly acquired facility located about 3 miles away. This work
was part of Ternstedt's renovation of a newly acquired facility and
involved the use of other construction crafts.
Because Ternstedt intended to use this new facility in automotive
production, Ternstedt officials emphasized to Don Cartage that time
was of the essence, and a consequent tight schedule for the move was
established. Don Cartage started the changeover work on Febru-
ary 10, and in accordance with its usual policy assigned all of the
work to its own employees, all of whom were members of Riggers
575. On February 10 or 11, Wood, secretary of Building Trades
Council, requested Don Cartage's general manager, Richards, to
employ members of the Millwrights to perform the work tasks allot-
ted Millwrights in the Dunlop Award. Richards did not comply with
this request.
Some time after February 10, Robert Laing, representing Mill-
wrights' parent international, and Robert Poole, representing Rig-
gers 575's parent international, were dispatched to the jobsite by their
respective internationals to inspect and ascertain whether the work
involved came within the scope of the Dunlop Award, and to attempt
to settle the dispute in accordance with the agreement between the
international unions as set out in the Dunlop Award. Although the
record is not clear as to when they inspected the job, the record show
that these representatives determined that the Ternstedt job was a
"building trades" job to which the Dunlop Award applied, but that
up to the time of their inspection, "there had been no millwright
work performed on the jab."
On February 17, a special meeting of Building Trades Council's
executive board was held at the request of Weir, secretary of the
Carpenters Council. Although the specific disputants were requested
8 In addition to the specialty contractors , who belong to Intervenor and employ riggers
to perform the disputed work , general contractors both from the Detroit area and else-
where in the Nation are awarded contracts to perform the disputed work, and they utilize
millwrights in this work.
MILLWRIGHTS LOCAL UNION NO. 1102, CARPENTERS 1067
to attend the meeting , the representative from Riggers 575 did not
appear. Weir, however, appeared before the executive board on behalf
of Millwrights 1102, informed the board that Don Cartage had
refused to employ millwrights in accordance with the Dunlop Award,
and requested permission to picket the Ternstedt job. This request
was granted by the executive board of the BTC, and the following
day the executive board's action was approved by the membership
of the BTC . Weir, accordingly , ordered the picketing by the Car-
penters, which took place on March 3 , 1964. Meanwhile, on Febru-
ary 28, a Millwright 1102 steward employed by a contractor installing
conveyors on the Ternstedt job approached Blue, Don Cartage's vice
president , and complained that members of Riggers 575 were doing
work assigned by the Dunlop Award to millwrights . When Blue told
him that Don Cartage did not intend to employ millwrights, the
steward replied that Don Cartage "would probably have to put mill-
wrights on before the job went very far." Horn , Millwrights 1102's
business agent, testified that on March 1 or 2 he telephoned either
Blue or Richards in an attempt to have Don Cartage abide by the
Dunlop Award and employ millwrights on the job.
At 7:30 on the morning of March 3, 1964 , about 60 pickets
appeared at the two entrances to the Ternstedt jobsite, some of whom
carried signs stating : "Don Cartage unfair to Millwrights Local
1102" and "Don Cartage violates Dunlop Agreement , discriminates
against Millwrights , Carpenters District Council ." Members of Mill-
wrights 1102 and Carpenters Council participated in the picketing.
Richard Kirby, a business agent for Building Trades Council, went
out to the jobsite to explain to any interested person that the picket-
ing was authorized by the Building Trades Council . According to
both Wood and Kirby, the object of the picketing by the Carpenters
was to compel Don Cartage to employ members of Millwrights 1102
in accordance with the provisions of the Dunlop Award.
Although Don Cartage 's employees continued to work during the
picketing , which lasted only one day, other trades on the job ceased
working, left the job, and refused to cross the picket line. Ternstedt
officials , fearing that the interruption of the work would impair their
production schedule , immediately contacted Blue and told him, in
effect, to straighten out the matter that day or lose the job. In an
effort to save Don Cartage 's contract , Blue and Richards agreed to
employ some millwrights on the job and so informed Horn. Horn
indicated that no millwrights would be furnished until Don Cartage
signed a contract with Millwrights 1102. At the hearing, Horn stated
that he wanted a contract to ensure that members of Millwrights
1102 were paid by Don Cartage "those fringe benefits [in addition to]
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the hourly wage, they get on their checks." Don Cartage refused to
execute a contract. The same day Ternstedt terminated Don Cartage's
contract and awarded the work to a general contractor, Darin and
Armstrong, who employs members of both Millwrights 1102 and Rig-
gers 575 and regularly follows the Dunlop Award in assigning the
work in dispute.
IV. CONTENTIONS OF THE PARTIES
1. Millwrights 1102 and Carpenters Council: These Respondents
contend that the Dunlop Award covers and is applicable to the dis-
puted work; that all parties involved in the dispute except General
Motors Corporation participated in the formulation of, and are,
accordingly, bound by, the award; and that the award, therefore, con-
stitutes a final determination and adjustment of the dispute within
the meaning of Section 10(k) of the Act. They accordingly contend
that the notice of hearing should be quashed.
In the alternative, these Respondents urge the Board to assign
those tasks to Millwrights 1102 which were assigned to it by the
Dunlop Award, but only on "building trades" projects. They further
urge that the award by the Board should cover not only Detroit
where the dispute arose, but also the geographical area within the
State of Michigan which is coextensive with the geographical juris-
diction of both Millwrights 1102 and Riggers 575.9 These Respondents
finally urge that any award made by the Board embrace both I)on
Cartage and all the other members of Intervenor who customarily
engage in the disputed work.
2. Detroit Building Trades Council: This Respondent contends
that the instant charges against it should be dismissed because, while
it sanctioned and approved the Carpenters Council's and Millwrights
1102's picketing activity in accordance with its policy to enforce
international and local union agreements, it did not itself through
any of its agents engage in such activity. It also contends that the
Dunlop Award is an international and local union agreement binding
upon the signatory Millwrights 1102 and Riggers 575, both of which
are affiliates of this Respondent, and urges the Board to determine
that the Dunlop Award is binding on all parties.
3. Riggers 575: Riggers 575 urges that all the work in dispute
should be awarded to it. It contends that the Dunlop Award has not
settled but has, in fact, aggravated the longstanding dispute existing
between it and Millwrights 1102 because, so it asserts , the award is
9 Millwrights 1102 and Riggers 575 stipulated that the following 19 counties within the
State of Michigan constitute the geographical jurisdictional area in which both of these
Unions claim jurisdiction :
Isabella , Clinton, Ogemaw , losco, Ingham , Livingston , Gratiot, Midland, Oakland,
Wayne, Macomb , St. Clair , Lapeer, Saginaw, Genessee, Tuscola , Huron , Bay, and
Sanilac.
MILLWRIGHTS LOCAL UNION NO. 1102, CARPENTERS 1069
static, is inconclusive in that it did not properly consider all of the
factors involved in the disputed work, and is unworkable in applica-
tion. Riggers 575 also urges that the Board's determination encom-
pass all employer-members of Intervenor in all of the 34 counties
within the State of Michigan in which Riggers 575 performs the dis-
puted work.1e
4. Don Cartage and Intervenor: Basically, these parties contend
that neither Don Cartage nor any other employer-member of Inter-
venor is bound by the Dunlop Award or any other award, decision,
or method for the voluntary adjustment of the disputed work. They
contend that the Dunlop Award is, generally speaking, unworkable
and urge the Board to affirm Don Cartage's work assignment to Rig-
gers 575. They further urge the Board to assign all work done or to
be done by all employer-members of Intervenor as described in the
broadened description of the work in dispute to their employees,
members of Riggers 575.
V. APPLICABILITY OF THE STATUTE
Before the Board may proceed to a determination of the dispute
pursuant to Section 10(k) of the Act, it must be satisfied that there
is reasonable cause to believe that Section 8(b) (4) (D) has been
violated.
As indicated above, the record contains ample evidence that
Respondents Millwrights 1102 and Carpenters Council picketed and
caused a work stoppage at the Ternstedt job with an avowed object
of forcing or requiring Don Cartage or Ternstedt to assign certain
disputed work to employees who are represented by Millwrights 1102,
rather than to employees of Don Cartage who are represented by
Riggers 575.
Respondent Detroit Trades Council approved and sanctioned Mill-
wrights 1102's and Carpenters Council's request to picket and
through one of its business agents involved itself in the picketing. It,
thereby became accountable for the picketing.
We find no merit in the Carpenters Council, Millwrights 1102, and
the Building Trades Council contention, in effect, that the Board is
precluded from making a determination of the dispute because the
Dunlop Award constitutes an adjustment of the dispute within the
meaning of Section 10(k). Don Cartage was not a party to the Dun-
lop Award when made. Although the record shows that Don Cartage
in 1957 agreed to abide by the Dunlop Award for an indeterminate
period, Don Cartage thereafter effectively repudiated its agreement
10 In addition to the counties set forth in footnote 9, Riggers 575 claims geographical
jurisdiction in additional counties located within the State of Michigan and the current
collective-bargaining agreement between Riggers 575 and the employer -members of Inter-
venor lists 34 counties in which employer -members of Intervenor employ members of
Riggers 575.
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in 1960, and has not since agreed to be bound by, or adhere to, the
award. Nor may such an agreement or adjustment be spelled out from
Don Cartage's expressed willingness to hire millwrights in order to
save its contract with Ternstedt, or from Ternstedt's reassignment of
the job to an employer who abides by the Dunlop Award. The record
also shows that Intervenor is neither signatory to nor has it agreed
to be bound by the award. We further find that there is at present
no agreed-upon method for the voluntary adjustment of the instant
dispute to which all parties hereto are bound.
On the basis of the entire record, we find that there is reasonable
cause to believe that a violation of Section 8(b) (4) (D) has occurred,
and in accordance with the mandate of the court of appeals find that
the dispute is properly before the Board for determination under
Section 10(k) of the Act.
VI. MERITS OF THE DISPUTE
1. Certification and bargaining agreements : Millwrights 1102 has
no collective-bargaining agreements with Don Cartage, Intervenor,
or any other employer-member of Intervenor, nor has it been certified
as the bargaining representative of employees of any such employer.
However, Millwrights 1102 does have contracts with the general con-
tractors, both in the area and nationally, who also perform the work
in dispute. Riggers 575 was certified as the bargaining representative
of all riggers and their apprentices employed by employer-members
of Intervenor in 1957,11 and currently has identical but individually
executed collective-bargaining agreements with Intervenor and its
members. Riggers 575 contends that its certification is controlling
and that its contract with Don Cartage covers the disputed work.
However, the certification of the Board specifically excludes employ-
ees classified as millwrights, and the Board's decision also states :
"The Petitioner and Riggers Local 575 agreed to exclude all iiiill-
wrights engaged in laying outlines, aligning, and leveling, as requested
by Carpenters. We emphasize that we are in no way attempting to
make a jurisdictional award in the sense of job content or work
assignments." 12
2. Skill and training of the competing groups: Both Millwrights
1102 and Riggers 575 have apprenticeship programs approved by the
Bureau of Apprenticeship Training, U.S. Department of Labor, for
the training of apprentices in the performance of the work in dispute,
and each union concedes that the members of the other are capable of
performing the work in dispute.
n Machinery Movers and Erectors Division , Michigan Cartagemen's Association, 117
NLRB 1778, 1782.
12 1d. at 1781 , footnote 13.
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3. E fciency , economy, and safety : It is clear from the record that
work of the type in dispute on "building trades job," as on others,
may feasibly be assigned either to riggers or millwrights . Both Mill-
wrights 1102 and Riggers 575 witnesses agreed that while either craft
is competent to perform the work, when both are used on the same
job to perform interdependent , work tasks , some standby time tends to
occur . Apparently this is especially true where both trades are utilized
for a single operation , such as an, assembly operation involving a single
machine. . It would appear , .therefore , that to the extent ,the; assignment
of all work tasks to a single craft allows for the elimination of such
- standby time, it provides for greater efficiency and economy in work
operations.
The claim is also made that the use of one craft is safer . Various
witnesses asserted that if millwrights are added to a job , it creates
increased hazards because of the additional people standing about and
the more frequent shifting of crews. No specific evidence was adduced,
however, to show that the incidence of accidents has ever actually
been established to be greater where both crafts are employed on a job
rather than one alone. -
4. Industry and area practice : It is undisputed that throughout the
United States , outside the southeastern Michigan area which contains
the locale of this dispute, contractors use millwrights rather than rig-
gers to do the disputed work: This includes . Philadelphia , New York,
and Chicago, the only other localities where separate rigger locals of
the Ironworkers exist. When employer members of the Intervenor
Cartagemen 's Association perform jobs outside the area herein
involved , they customarily assign work of the kind here in dispute to
millwrights.
As indicated above, the parties disagree as to the prevalent area
practice in the Detroit region . According to testimony adduced by the
Intervenor, its members perform 90 percent of the contracted-out
machinery moving and erection work; other specialty contractors, not
members of the Association , perform 5 percent ; and'the remaining 5
percent is done by general contractors who employ both riggers and
millwrights .13 Quite clearly , however, the foregoing testimony does
not reflect a true measure of the area practice relating to the specific
1a As for non-contracted -out work, this is done principally by the in-plant employees
such as the maintenance crews in automobile plants. The record does not disclose what
proportion of the total machinery moving and erection work is done by these in-plant
employees.
The assertion of our dissenting colleague in the earlier decision in this case , 154 NLRB
513, that "The record reflects that employer -members of the Intervenor perform 90 percent
of the disputed work in the area involved" [emphasis supplied ], is obviously in error and
was no doubt based upon the testimony just referred to that its members perform 90
percent of the contracted-out machinery * moving and erection . Most of that contracted-out
work, as previously noted, is so-called in-plant maintenance work, not involving other build-
ing trades crafts, to which the Millwrights make no claim.
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work here in•dispute. The contracted-out work of Intervenor's mem-
bers and independent specialty rigging contractors is not confined to
work on "building trades jobs," with which this dispute is alone con-
cerned, but includes as' well all work that these companies do, includ-
ing cartage of machinery and in-plant installation work to which the
Millwrights lay no claim. As earlier mentioned, however, only a very
minor fraction-in the case of Don Cartage, 5 percent or less-of the
machinery movement and erection work performed by Intervenor's
members-and other specialty rigging contractors is related to "build-
ing trades" jobs. And even as to the 5 percent, it does not clearly
appear to just what extent such work, either by reason of customer
request or otherwise, has been done in compliance with the work
assignment provisions of the Dunlop Award. The record reflects that
general contractors, both•Michigan-based and from out-of-State, per-
form a substantial amount of machinery erection work in "building
trades" jobs, using both riggers and millwrights in, such work. How-
ever, aside from one witness' testimony of questionable reliability,
there, is no evidence disclosing the proportions in which machinery
installations on "building trades" jobs are performed with the use of
millwrights or by riggers alone. On this record, it is impossible for us
to make a reliable estimate on that-score, or to-form a conclusive judg-
ment as to whether area practice with respect to the specific work
in dispute preponderates, on the side of the Millwrights or of the
Riggers.
5. Union .procedures and decisions : Millwrights 1102 and Carpen-
ters Council offered in evidence many interunion awards over a great
many years involving disputes occurring in various parts of the
United States which assigned the work here in dispute to millwrights
rather than riggers.
We have heretofore referred to the Dunlop Award of 1957, which
was subscribed to, by both .Locals herein involved and their respective
'internationals' but not by the Intervenor or its members. As, noted
.above, that, arbitration award was the culmination of various attempts
by both international unions, to resolve the dispute. In certain limited
situations on "building trades" jobs, for example where customers
have insisted on this, Intervenor's members have followed the pro-
visions of the award, employing both riggers and millwrights to per-
form their respectively allotted' work, tasks, but generally they have
refused to follow the jurisdictional allocations of'that award. Riggers
575, as distinguished from its parent international, has also refused to
follow that award although it appears as a signatory to the award
and has never formally repudiated it. The award, although not bind-
ing upon all parties to this proceeding, forms one of the principal
bases for Millwrights' claim to work here in dispute. It is thus a fac-
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tor appropriately to be considered, not only for historical reasons, but
because it reflects an existing agreement of the disputant locals and
their parent bodies with respect to the division of their overlapping
jurisdictional claims.
The Dunlop Award states :
3. In accordance with the Arbitration stipulation of the local
unions, this decision concerns : "The unloading, moving, han-,
dling, placing, erecting, assembling, adjusting , aligning, and lev-
eling of all machinery and machine parts affecting Millwrights
Local 1102 and Riggers Local 575.
Power Equipment
6. For the purpose of this decision, power equipment shall be
defined to include such equipment as cranes, mechanical powered
booms, overhead cranes, tractors, winch trucks, work lift trucks,
and A frame trucks.
Unloading and Handling with Power Equipment
7. The unloading and handling from railroad cars or from the
point of receiving or storage to the approximate position for the
installation or assembly of machines is the work of Riggers. The
Riggers shall remove blocking and bracing on railroad cars or in
storage necessary for the unloading and handling of the machines.
The approximate position shall be designated by the contractor.
Uncrating
8. The removal of crating, blocking and bracing above the
machine skid, the opening of boxes of parts, and the removal of
protective covering is the work of Millwrights.
Anchor Bolts
9. The laying out, drilling and installation of anchor bolts and
nuts, and the cleaning and dressing of machined surfaces and
component parts is the work of Millwrights.
Package Machines
10. The setting of package machines shall be performed as
follows :
(a) The removal of the machine skids and the placing of the
package machine over prepared anchor bolts with power equip-
ment is the work of Riggers. If power equipment is used to place
the package machine to the center line in order to mark the
anchor bolts and to make subsequent moves of the package
machine with power equipment, these operations are the work of
Riggers.
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(b) The bolting, aligning and leveling of package machines is
the work of Millwrights . The dressing and installation of small
parts of package machines is the work of Millwrights.
Assembly of Non -Package Machines
It. There shall be no limitations on the use of tools or equip-
ment. The contractor shall have final authority to designate the
method and the equipment or tools to be used.
12. The assembly of non -package machines shall be performed
as follows :
(a) The handling of component parts of machines where
power equipment is used is the work of Riggers . The bolting
shall be performed in accordance with paragraph 13 below.
(b) The handling of component parts of machines by hand is
the work of Millwrights. The bolting shall be performed by
Millwrights.
(c) The use of chainfalls in the assembly of non-package
machines has become less and less frequent in recent years. In
order to conform more to national practice, the use of chainfalls
in the assembly of non -package machines is the work of Mill-
wrights, except that in the assembly of heavy presses and similar
heavy machine tools , the use of chainfalls is the work of Riggers.
13. The bolting of component parts of machines assembled
with power equipment shall be determined on the principles of
safety, ideally with the two trades working together . In view of
past difficulties , bolting shall be performed as follows in the
assembly of machines involving the use of power equipment:
( a) On a horizontal surf ace the Riggers shall install two bolts.
The Millwrights shall install the remainder.
(b) On a vertical or inclined surface the Riggers shall install
one half the bolts, but not less than two bolts . The Millwrights
shall install the remainder.
(c) On a part suspended from a surface , the Riggers shall
install all bolts.
(d) Bolts or tie-rods installed by power equipment , as on large
presses, shall be installed by Riggers.
(e) The final tightening , adjusting , leveling and aligning shall
be performed by Millwrights.
Aligning and Leveling
14. The aligning and leveling of machines , including the use of
jacks and chainfalls , in the aligning and leveling operation, shall
be the work of Millwrights . If power equipment is used in align-
ing and leveling, the Riggers shall hook on the power equipment.
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We have also het etofore referred to the Goodfellow decision by
the recently constituted Appeals Board of the National Joint Board
for the Settlement of Jurisdictional Disputes 14 which involved many
of the same parties and generally the same type of work as in the
instant dispute.
Goodfellow involved the aligning, leveling, and assembly of two
new microtinish polishing lines by a specialty contractor (a member
of Intervenor) and the installation of three similar old lines by a gen-
eral contractor (Darin and Armstrong) at another General Motors
plant. The work assignments of the two contractors were different.
The specialty contractor awarded all work to riggers; the general
contractor assigned the movement and assembly with power equip-
ment to riggers and the aligning and leveling to millwrights. The
appeals Board of the National Joint Board for the Settlement of
Jurisdictional Disputes analyzed and considered the issues in dispute
in light of the following criteria which it regarded as material to its
determination: (1) amount of work in dispute; (2) past work assign-
ments of the employers; (3) practice in area; (4) practice in other
areas; (5) previous agreements between unions as to settlement of
dispute; (6) basic work jurisdiction of each union; and (7) jurisdic-
tional claims by unions in their agreements, constitutions, and the
like. On the basis of its evaluation of these considerations, the Appeals
Board concluded :
The conclusion of the Appeals Board is that assembly without
use of power equipment and the aligning and leveling in connec-
tion with the installation of the two new polishing lines should
be assigned to millwrights . . . The millwrights have no proper
claim to the use of the power equipment used in the assembly of
component parts in the present case.
14 This decision was introduced in evidence at the reopened hearing on January 27, 1966,
for the purpose of proving that all the parties to the instant dispute were bound to the
Joint Board As we indicated in our Supplemental Decision, that was not so We refer
to the Goodfellow decision to indicate another interunion attempt to settle the basic
dispute which 1s also before us. While interumon agreements to which employers may not
be bound are not controlling herein, they may be appropriately considered Local Union
No 68, Wood. Were and Metal Lathers International Union ( Acoustics d Specialties, Inc ),
142 NLRB 1073 , Local 85, United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices , etc (Dobson
Heavy Haul, Inc.), 156 NLRB 1386 . See also James B Cagey v. Westinghouse Electric
Corporation , 375 U.S 261 , 264, wherein the Supreme Court stated, "The Board , as admon-
ished by Section 10(k), has often given effect to private agreements to settle disputes of
this character , and that is in accord with the purpose as stated even by the minority spokes-
man in Congress . .11
In this same connection we recall the language from the Supreme Court's decision in
the CBS case, N.L R B v Radio d Television Broadcast Engineers Union, Local 1212,
Electrical Workers, 364 U.S 573, 583: "With this experience and a knowledge of the stand-
ards generally used by arbitrators , unions, employers , joint boards and others in wrestling
with this problem , we are confident that the Board need not disclaim the power given it
for lack of standards ." [ Emphasis supplied I
As noted in our earlier decision in 154 NLRB 513, both of the parent international
unions here involved and their constituent locals are hound by the procedures of the new
Joint Board , which resulted in the Goodfellow decision.
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As we construe the Goodfellow decision , it modifies the earlier
Dunlop Award by modifying paragraph 13(a) and ( b) of that award
to assign the work tasks therein provided to riggers rather than
millwrights.
VII. CONCLUSIONS AS TO THE MERITS OF THE DISPUTE
In International Association of Machinists, Lodge No. 1743 (J. A.
Jones Construction Company), 135 NLRB 1402, the Board set forth
the following criteria to be considered in the making of an affirmative
award under the CBS decision: 11
The Board will consider all relevant factors in determining who
is entitled to the work in dispute, e.g., the skills and work
involved, certifications by the Board, company and industry
practice, agreements between unions and between employers and
.unions, awards of arbitrators, joint boards and the AFL-CIO in
the same or related cases, the assignments made by the employer
and the efficient operation of the employer's business.
Among the factors referred to above are some which are of little or
no aid in resolving the dispute before us. Thus it does not appear that
members of either of the two crafts possess greater skills. There is no
controlling certification by the Board that affects the issue here.
Industry practice elsewhere in the United States clearly supports the
claim of Millwrights 1102, but in the geographical area of this con-
troversy it is mixed.16 The incorporation in the contract with Inter-
venor of the Riggers 575's broad and self-serving jurisdictional
claims, like the overlapping claims of the same character to be found
in Millwrights' contracts with general contractors, commands no sub-
stantive weight in the resolution of a dispute of the kind before us.
It bears at most on the factor of employer assignments , a factor we
assess below.
We are thus left with the remaining factors . As to these, Mill-
wrights 1102 relies basically on the 1957 Dunlop Award and the inter-
union agreement based thereon, whereas Intervenor and Riggers 575
place their main reliance upon the practice of work assignments by
Intervenor's members and the greater efficiency and economy flowing
from the use of riggers alone.
Although not binding on the Intervenor, the Dunlop Award is
nevertheless of important significance in evaluating the relative merits
of the competing unions' claims to the disputed work. In keeping with
15 N.L.R .B. v. v. Radio & Television Broadcast Engineers , 364 U.S. 573.
18 We refer here specifically to industry practice on "building trades " jobs, which are
the only ones here in dispute. We cannot agree with our dissenting colleague that greater
weight should be accorded to the practice with reference to "in -plant" work, where there is
no jurisdictional dispute , and where the particular problems of the juxtaposition of com-
peting crafts and the application of interunion agreements do not exist.
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the policy of the Act to reduce jurisdictional strife, the Board has
always looked with favor upon the voluntary efforts by unions to
adjust their jurisdictional differences.17 The Dunlop Award is the out-
growth of an arbitral process jointly initiated in just such an effort
by the respective internationals of the disputing locals here involved.
Beyond that, and of even more impressive significance, it attained, we
find, the force of an interunion agreement when it was signed by
responsible representatives of both locals, as well as by representatives
of their parent internationals.
The Dunlop Award, which specifically covers the disputed work,
appears on its face to be rationally based. It fixes jurisdictional bound-
aries along lines which take into consideration the work tasks which
historically have been considered central to each craft : The riggers are
awarded those work tasks more directly related to the transport of
the machinery and its placement, where power equipment is required,
in its appropriate final position; the millwrights, those more directly
related to installation of machinery, without the use of power equip-
ment, and the adjustment of the machinery after it has been moved to
its appropriate final position. The work apportionment made in the
award conforms generally to accepted work assignment practices on
building trade projects elsewhere in the United States, including the
three aforementioned areas where separate Riggers locals of the Iron-
workers exist. The award apparently has the approval and support of
the Building Trades Council with which both locals herein involved
are affiliated. It has been acquiesced in and complied with by national
and local general contractors in the construction industry. Moreover,
the continuing viability of the award in basic respects is reflected by
the recent Goodfellow decision made by the Appeals Board of the
newly-constituted National Joint Board.18
The foregoing, in our view, provide most compelling considerations
supporting the jurisdictional claim of Millwrights 1102 against that
of Riggers 575.
The question that remains is whether the factors relied upon by
Intervenor and Riggers 575 are sufficient to overcome the force of the
considerations favoring the Millwrights' claim . We consider first the
contention based upon the prior assignment practices of Intervenor's
17 Acoustics & Specialties, supra; Dobson Heavy Haul, Inc., supra ; United Brotherhood
of Carpenters ( The Walter Corporation), 151 NLRB 741.
18 We note that this new appeals procedure was the result of efforts by the AFL-CIO,
Associated General Contractors , and the participating Specialty Contractors Employers'
Associations to end jurisdictional disputes by setting up an additional safeguard to protect
the rights of all involved in a jurisdictional dispute. This matter was of such concern in
the maintenance of industrial peace and stability that President Johnson acted as the
witness to this new agreement.
We have earlier recalled that parent Ironworkers and Carpenters Internationals and
their constituent locals are bound to these new procedures . Footnote 14, supra.
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members. It is clear, of course, that an employer's assignment of dis-
puted work cannot be made the touchstone in determining a jurisdic-
tional dispute. As the Board has noted in other cases, to do so would
be a reversion to Board practice explicitly rejected by the Supreme
Court in the CBS decision. What the employer has done in the past,
and what he wishes to continue to do, is, however, a factor that must
be considered. We evaluate that factor, as well as the others in this
case, in the context of the particular dispute before us, bearing in
mind the nature of the organized industry in which the dispute has
arisen, and the traditions, customs, and practices of that industry.
As found above, the dispute here relates to only that small segment-
5 percent or less-of the machinery moving and installation opera-
tions of Intervenor's members that involve "building trades" projects,
which, we are satisfied may properly be considered work of the con-
struction industry type. In the segment of that industry which is
organized along "building trades" lines, and which alone is involved
in this dispute, it has traditionally been the practice to divide work
among members of the various "building trades" craft groupings in
conformity with established jurisdictional lines, and contractors who
do work in that industry are expected to, and normally do, observe
such jurisdictional lines in making their work assignments.
In a situation such as this, we do not believe that the same weight
may appropriately be given the Intervenor's prior work assignment
practices as would be the case if, say, the jurisdictional 'conflict here
had arisen in the course of Don Cartage's "inplant maintenance"
operations. Quite clearly, in a "building trades" situation it makes for
an unstable and explosive situation to allow two contractors, one a
specialty rigging contractor and the other a general contractor, to
assign identical work tasks having the same function to members of
different crafts. Particularly is this true where, as here, there has been
a long history of jurisdictional conflict arising from such opposite
work assignments. In these circumstances, we think it can make no
contribution to the final solution of the dispute for us to give control-
ling weight to Intervenor's past work assignment practice, to the ex-
tent that'such practice is at variance with work jurisdictional alloca-
tions that have been fixed by interunion agreement and now apply to
others engaged in the same work.19
16 The analysis above demonstrates that our dissenting colleague is in erior in asserting
we have disregarded the Employer 's assignment , although concededly we have not fol-
lowed it.
Our colleague's further contention that the specialty contractors ' "freedom" to bid on
and perform work with riggers is at stake does not suggest a different result. In any case
where the Board is required to make an award between competing crafts with different
employers , the inevitable consequence of the award is to condition both employers' chances
of securing such work without coercive interference upon their willingness in their work
assignments to follow the Board ' s award If either of the employers restricts his hiring
to the craft which does not prevail , he restricts his own "freedom" to bid on and perform
MILLWRIGHTS LOCAL UNION NO. 1102 , CARPENTERS 1079
We turn,,then, to the contention that it is less efficient and less eco-
Iiomical'for Intervenor's members to perform the disputed work with
the use of millwrights. That contention is largely based on the record
showing that standby time tends to occur where split assignments are
required. The record indicates that most of the standby time occurs
during assembly operations.',' The determination we make below,
however, modifies the Dunlop Award, in line with the construction we
give the Goodfellow decision, so as to assign to riggers all assembly
operations where power equipment is used, save for the final tighten-
ing, adjusting, leveling, and aligning which remains with the mill-
wrights.71 This will eliminate the split assignments which were pro-
vided for in items 13(a) and (b) of the Dunlop Award. We note,
moreover, that the Goodfellow decision in effect admonishes the Mill-
wrights not to be so technical in their work claims as to require the
use of millwrights where the work is "so small, or so incidental, or of
such short duration" as to warrant the use of riggers alone. We expect
that, admonition to be heeded, and we will take it into account in any
future case that may come before us.22 The elimination of split assign-
ments and the other considerations just mentioned will also, we
believe, largely reduce the amount of standby time, thus limiting the
force of the efficiency and economy contention.
In any event, in the context of the specific dispute here, we do not
consider the factor of efficiency and economy as sufficient to overcome
the other considerations present in this case, as set out above. We
advert, more specifically, to the policy reasons for supporting, where
not repugnant to the Act, interunion agreements and arbitration
decisions that mark out jurisdictional borders'23 as well as to the prac-
tical desirability of maintaining in "building trades" situations uni-
formity in work assignments where identical work and functions are
the work without interference . As general contractors on "building trades" jobs in this
and other areas have found it possible to do some of the machinery erection work with
riggers in accordance with the Dunlop Award, and as the Intervenor 's specialty contractor
members having found it possible to employ millwrights for some of the work outside the
Detroit -1B county area , we do not believe Don Cartage 's and its fellow members ' ingenuity
and capacity to adjust to a similar work division within the area encompassed by this
award will be found wanting or be unduly restricted. CBS is any case teaches that the
Board's prior practice of following employer assignments in every case could not be
sustained.
20Intervenor ' s witnesses agreed that over 95 percent of the job of assembling , leveling,
and aligning was in the work of disassembly and of assembly and only about 3 percent in
leveling and aligning.
21This modification makes sense , and we make it part of our determination even if we
are wrong in our construction of the Goodfellow decision.
a' The Goodfellow decision does not attempt to define precisely the type of jobs or circum-
stances in which a Rigger crew might well be used exclusively , nor do we. The Dunlop
Award contains procedures for amicable settlement of such fringe issues, and Joint Board
procedures , to which the union parties are bound, are available for prompt settlement
without economic action should the parties disagree.
x' See Local Union 68, Wood, Ware and Metal Lathers International Union, AFL-CIO
( Acoustics & Specialties, Inc.), 142 NLRB 1073.
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involved. We also take into account that some loss of flexibility in the
making of work assignments may occur in a craft union structure.
But we do not believe we are warranted simply for that reason, or
because of any consequential loss in efficiency and economy, to disturb
the work jurisdictional divisions which, as in this case, have been
worked out through the cooperative effort of the internationals
involved and have been accepted by general contractors who regu-
larly do business with the building trades unions. Compliance with
the work assignment apportionment we uphold will deprive Inter-
venor's members of the advantage they now enjoy over general con-
tractors in the Detroit area in the making of work assignments. But
this in our judgment is required for a fair and effective resolution of
this dispute. Intervenor's members, we note, have been able to accom-
modate themselves to the substantially similar apportionment that
exists elsewhere in the United States where they also bid for and per-
form work. As the Board has heretofore had occasion to observe,
"individual interests in a particular case may have to be subordinated
to a practical and effective solution of the overall problem"' if the
Board is to fulfill the arbitrator-like functions assigned to it under
Section 10 (k) '24 and this, we find, is the case here.
We conclude from our appraisal of all relevant factors that, on
balance, it is appropriate to give effect to the work jurisdictional
apportionment made in the Dunlop Award, subject to the modifica-
tions that have been noted herein.25
The dissenting opinion of Member Jenkins prompts us to add the
following observations directed to certain assertions therein made:
1. Contrary to the charge in the dissent, our decision neither
"ignores" nor "disregards" any relevant factors pertaining to the
resolution of this dispute..As is evident from a fair reading of our
decision, we have considered and evaluated all relevant criteria we
normally use in the resolution of jurisdictional disputes. Unlike our
dissenting colleague, however, we have assessed their relative values
in the context of the particular dispute before us.
2. As is also evident from a fair reading of our decision, the Good-
fellow arbitration decision is but one of the, considerations we have
24 Acoustics and Specialties, Inc, supra, 1079.
25 The parties requested that the scope of our determination be broadened from that set
forth in the notice of hearing herein to the description of work in dispute contained In
the Dunlop Award . We have acceded to that request . The parties also requested that our
work assignment determination extend beyond the particular localized area of the dispute.
In the usual case we are reluctant to do so; however , in this case any award which en-
compasses a smaller geographic area than the one in which both locals have territorial
jurisdiction might lead to further strife. Our award, therefore , shall apply to all work of
the type involved In the Instant dispute in any of the 19 counties of Michigan where
both Riggers 575 and Millwrights 1102 claim jurisdiction . In making this determination,
we are assigning the various types of work In dispute on "building trades" jobs either to
riggers who are represented by Riggers 575, but not to that union or its members, or to
millwrights who are represented by Millwrights 1102, but not to that union or its members.
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taken into account and weighed in the balance; it does not, as asserted
in the dissent; constitute the "only basis" for the determination we
have reached. Our determination, although also supported by other
considerations including the Goodfellow decision, rests primarily
upon the interunion agreement of the locals herein involved and their
parent internationals to accept' and abide by the work jurisdictional
apportionment of the 1957 Dunlop Award, upon -the policy considera-
tions favoring support of voluntary interunion adjustments of juris-
dictional boundaries, particularly where, as here, they relate to con-
struction industry projects organized along building trades lines, and
upon the importance in such "building trades" situations of having
contractors, honor established work jurisdictional divisions and follow
uniform work assignment practices if .jurisdictional conflict is to be
set at rest. In the' context of this case, we are fully persuaded that, on
balance, these considerations,clearly outweigh those on which our dis-
senting colleague would alone rely to reach an opposite conclusion.26
3. As reference to the record and 'to the parties' briefs will readily
disclose, there is no substance whatever to the assertion in the dis-
sent that, "this case was tried by all parties on a theory entirely dif-
ferent from that on which the Board's,award proceeds." The basic
issue litigated in this case was whether, in the light of all relevant
considerations, the disputed work,in its 'entirety should be assigned to
millwrights as provided for in the Dunlop Award, or should instead
be assigned to riggers. Our determination proceeds essentially on the
"all or nothing" basis on which the case was litigated. It is true that in
fashioning our award' we have taken into account the posthearing
Goodfellow decision of the Joint Board, which, as we construe it,
modifies the Dunlop Award in ,certain respect favoring the Riggers.
But this conforms with, rather than deviates from, the "all or noth-
ing" approach taken by the parties. The Goodfellow decision is bind-
ing on the Millwrights and has been acquiesced in by that union. Its
practical effect is to reduce the Millwrights' work allocation under the
Dunlop Award to which its work jurisdictional claim is tied, and to
26 There is no evidentiary support for the broad assertion in the dissent that there has
been "an effective repudiation of [the 1957 Dunlop] agreement and award by the parties."
That agreement has never been formally renounced by any of the parties thereto. The
Goodfellow decision is not a repudiation but a reaffirmation with slight modifications of
the 1957 Dunlop Award underlying the interunion agreement Quite clearly , Millwrights
1102 and its international continue to look to that agreement subject to the modifications
so made as possessing continuing vitality . There is nothing in the record to suggest any
unwillingness on the part of the parent international of Riggers 575 to continue to honor
its commitment under that agreement . On "building trades " projects to which the inter-
union agreement alone applies , Riggers 575 has also continued in effect to comply with
the Dunlop agreement where machinery erection work is performed by general contractors,
but has sought to deviate from it only where the same work is performed by rigging
specialty contractors . To give the unilateral deviation of Riggers 575 the force of an
"effective" nullification of the interunion agreement , would be to put a premium on
breaches of voluntary interunion agreements adjusting jurisdictional differences and rob
such agreements of their effectiveness as normative and stabilizing factors.
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the extent it has done so, it has also reduced the scope of the work in
dispute, and some of the inefficiency claimed for the Dunlop Award.
4. There is likewise no substance to our dissenting colleague's asser-
tion that our determination contains "no reasonably clear definition
of the work involved or of the location of the line between riggers'
and millwrights' work" Our determination upholds in essence the
work assignment apportionment particularized in the Dunlop Award,
except for the modifications of paragraphs 13 (a) and (b) thereof as
stated above. The Dunlop Award spells out with reasonable precision
the jurisdictional division between millwrights' and riggers' work.
Because this case was litigated on an "all or nothing" basis, without
reference to whether separate items of the work in dispute, as dis-
tinguished from the totality of such work, should be assigned to one
or the other of the disputing unions, the record as made provides no
basis for a different or clearer definition.
DETERMINATION OF DISPUTE
Pursuant to Section 10(k) of the National Labor Relations Act, as
amended, and upon the basis of the foregoing findings and the entire
record in this proceeding, the National Labor Relations Board makes
the following Determination of Dispute.
1. Employees who are employed by Don Cartage Company or any
other employer-member of Intervenor and who are represented by
Riggers and Machinery Erectors, Machinery Movers Local No. 575,
International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron
Workers of America, AFL-CIO, are entitled on "building trades"
jobs to perform the following disputed operations: the removal of all
anchor bolts and nuts; the dismantling of machinery; packaging of
machines ; the assembly of nonpackaged machines by means of power
equipment; and installations relating to horizontal and vertical sur-
faces by means of power equipment.
2. Millwrights Local Union No. 1102, United Brotherhood of Car-
penters and Joiners of America, AFL-CIO, Carpenters District
Council of Detroit, Wayne and Oakland Counties and Vicinities,
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, AFL-
CIO, and Detroit and Wayne County, Oakland and Macomb Coun-
ties, Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council, are not
entitled, by means proscribed by Section 8 (b) (4) (D) of the Act, to
force or require Don Cartage Company, or any other employer-
member of Intervenor, to assign the above work to members of Mill-
wrights Local Union No. 1102, United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners of America, AFL-CIO.
3. Employees engaged as millwrights are entitled to the assignment
by Don Cartage and other members of the Intervenor of the follow-
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ing work on "building trades" jobs: the aligning, leveling, and
anchoring of machinery ; uncrating, blocking, and bracing above the
machine skid; the opening of boxes of parts and the removal of pro-
tective covering; the laying out, drilling, and installing of anchor
bolts'and nuts; the cleaning and dressing of machine surfaces and
component parts; assembly, bolting, aligning, and unpacking ma-
chines by hand and with the use of chainfalls; dressing and installa-
tion of small parts of package machine; and the final tightening and
adjusting of machines.
4. Within 10 days from the date of this Decision and Determina-
tion of Dispute, Millwrights Local Union No. 1102, United Brother-
hood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, AFL-CIO, Carpenters
District Council of Detroit, Wayne and, Oakland Counties and Vicin-
ities, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America,
AFL-CIO, and Detroit and Wayne County, Oakland and Macomb
Counties, Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council, shall
notify the Regional Director for Region 7, in writing, whether or not
they will refrain, from,forcing or requiring Don Cartage Company,
or any other employer-member of Intervenor, by means proscribed by
Section 8(b) (4) (D) of the Act, to assign that portion of the work in
dispute herein found properly to be riggers' work to members of Mill-
wrights Local Union No. 1102 rather than to employees represented
by Riggers Local Union No. 575.
MEMBER JENKINS, dissenting :
Because the record in this case compels the award of the disputed
work to employees represented by the Riggers and does not permit
the award made by the majority, I must dissent.
Efficiency and economy in the performance of the disputed work
undoubtedly favors the Riggers, as my colleagues concede. The record
establishes that the Millwrights and the Riggers, as well as the
employing'specialty contractors, all agree that where both riggers and
millwrights are employed simultaneously on a job as the majority's
award requires, "standby time," that is, idle time for one or the other
of the groups of employees, does not simply "tend to occur" but in
fact does occur and is indeed unavoidable.-' Efficiency through the use
of a single crew of riggers to carry through to completion a job in
which they are necessarily engaged in the earlier stages, rather than
employing two crews of millwrights and riggers in the later stages,
is in fact the core of this dispute. The Board's award disregards the
factors, of efficiency and economy which overwhelmingly favor the
riggers; it substitutes a speculation, unsupported by anything in the
aT Blue, an official of Don Cartage, familiar with the operations in the rigging industry,
characterized this standby time as "featherbedding." ,
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record and little nourished by the lack of clarity in the award, that
split assignments will be eliminated , which in turn my colleagues
"believe" will "largely reduce" the amount of standby time. Similar
disregard of these factors in an arbitration award strikingly like the
one on which the majority relies caused the court in International
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America v. C. J. Montag
cf, Sons, 335 F.2d 216 ( C.A. 9 , per Madden, J.), footnote 31, infra, to
be unwilling to give any weight or credence to the award.
The award made by the majority also disregards the practice in the
rigging industry . The record establishes that 95 percent of the rig-
ging work 28 in the Detroit - 18 county area where this dispute exists
is done by riggers and that in such cases riggers do the entire job,
including all the types of work claimed by the Millwrights here, and
their right to perform such work is undisputed. Concededly , the char-
acter and job content of the work is the same in the 5 percent sector of
the industry where the dispute exists as it is in the 95 percent sector
where the riggers' performance of the entire job is unquestioned.
Whether this practice has developed in this area because of frequent
auto model changeovers requiring a highly specialized and proficient
rigging industry , or for whatever reasons, the practice exists and the
Board must take it into account.
The majority ignores this practice ; instead , it relies on practices in
three other cities , plainly irrelevant here, skips over the relevant prac-
tice, and seizes on the fact that within the 5 percent of the rigging
work where the dispute lies , the division between riggers and mill-
wrights is not established by the record , then concludes that because
this small segment of the industry is performed on "building trades
jobs" and because the division within such segment is unknown, it is
appropriate to disregard the industry practice and allocate part of
the work to the millwrights and part of it to the riggers . Defining the
practice by such a tailoring permits the reaching of any result
desired, and vitiates practice as a criterion for making awards in
jurisdictional disputes.
By making the award rest on the type of project at which the work
is done, that is, whether other building trades crafts are employed on
the job, my colleagues permit the award to be dictated by the ability
of the building trades to shut down the job . For me, the relevant
practice which CBS and Jones require the Board to consider is that
followed in doing rigging work in the Detroit -19 county area. The
record establishes that 95 percent of such work, plus an unknown
fraction of the remaining 5 percent , is done by riggers who perform
28 The only witness qualified to know the practice over the entire area so testified with-
out contradiction , and his description of the area practice took into account the work of all
employers doing rigging work , not only his own company but all specialty contractors as
well as the so -called "general " contractors who are willing to employ millwrights in doing
part of the rigging work.
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the.entire job without use of millwrights, and the practice therefore
is dominantly in favor of the riggers.
The award made by the majority also disregards the assignment of
work made by the Employer here. In the circumstances of this case,
and pursuant to the practice in the Detroit-19 county area, the
Employer's assignment of work is in fact no more than a reflection of
which kind of employer, specialty contractor or general contractor,
successfully bids on the work; a specialty contractor always assigns
the work to riggers in his employ unless compelled (as was attempted
here) to employ millwrights in addition; 29 a general contractor
always assigns a part of the work to millwrights, in order to prevent
the other crafts he has to use from shutting down the work. Thus the
dispute here involves the right or freedom of specialty contractors to
continue to bid for and perform with employees of their own choos-
ing, (riggers) rigging work on jobs where other building trades are
employed by other employers. Though in such circumstances the
employers' assignment of the work may not carry the weight it would
where the assignment was made by a single employer making a choice
between two competing groups in his own employ, the assignment is
nonetheless entitled to some weight, and the majority gives it none.
The only basis for the majority decision is the Goodfellow arbitra-
tion award. My colleagues set forth seven standards which they dis-
cern formed the basis for the award. However, they misconceive some
of these standards and several of them are inconsistent with the cri-
teria which the Board has heretofore held to require consideration
under the CBS decision. i° The Goodfellow decision asserted that there
must be a national rule for the allocation of the work in dispute; that
- Cf. Arthur Venneri Company ( Local 5, Plumbers ), 145 NLRB 1580.
° The criteria on which Goodfellow is based, as stated by the majority , with my com-
ments in parentheses at the end of each , are as follows .
1. Amount of work in dispute . ( The meaning of this standard is that the work
involved is not so small as to be de minimis or incidental , and that other building
crafts were present on the job, neither of which considerations furthers a reasoned
award.)
2. Past work assignments of the employer . ( It is the past assignments which have
created this dispute , but they are entitled to consideration , however, what this stand-
ard turns out to mean in the arbitration award is that a rule of uniform application
over the entire country should be devised for allocating the disputed work, an approach
at odds with the concession in the arbitration award itself that collective bargaining,
wages , and fringe benefits are all established on an area basis )
3 & 4 Practice in the area; and practice in other areas ( The approach in the
Goodfellow award to practice is the same as that of my colleagues , and is subject to
the objections mentioned earlier.)
5. Previous agreements between unions concerning the dispute . ( Since these previous
agreements failed to settle the dispute, to give much weight to them would appear
to invite continuance of the dispute )
0 Basic work jurisdiction of each union . ( The only information Goodfellow con-
veys on this point is contained in the phrase "at the center of the duties ")
7. Jurisdictional statements in the union agreements and constitutions , and Board
certifications . ( These are two of the criteria the Board considers relevant under CBS;
Goodfellow would exclude any consideration of such materials ; I would agree that
in disputes of this type the weight to be given them should be slight.)
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separate criteria, different from the Board's, are appropriate in
resolving disputes in the building trades; and that the Board should
not only give weight to but should follow and adopt arbitrators'
awards in this area unless there was misconduct or gross violation of
public policy in the arbitration. In short, Goodfellow commands the
Board to follow its award regardless of the fact that the usual Board
criteria might point to it different award, and would have the Board
abdicate to the arbitrator its function of making a reasoned determi-
nation in such disputes. This the Board has done. Even Goodfellow's
erroneous conclusion that all the parties were bound to that particular
arbitration process, and its error (as shown by this record) in stating
that there would be no loss of efficiency because the work " can be"
arranged sequentially, have not dissuaded the Board.31
The reasons asserted for adopting Goodfellow as the Board's award
do not withstand scrutiny. The "direct relation" of the work award
to the traditionally "central" work jurisdiction of each claimant is
not apparent from any facts in Goodfellow nor in the record before
us. The practice "elsewhere in the United States" refers only to three
other cities, which practice is irrelevant here, as I have already- noted.
Approval and acceptance of the award by the building trades and the
contractors who do business with them is no more than the predict-
able reaction of those in whose favor the award is made; and to jus-
tify the award on the basis of "traditions"and "expectations" of these
groups is to beg the question. In disclaiming sole reliance on Good-
fellow, the majority asserts reliance "primarily" on the "continuing
viability" of the predecessor and somewhat similar Dunlop Award,
on the interunion agreement to accept and abide by that award, and
on the policy of supporting voluntary interunion adjustment of juris-
dictional disputes. But such reliance is misplaced here, in view of the
continuance of the dispute, the effective repudiation of that agreement
and award by the parties culminating in the Goodfellow award, the
departure from the earlier agreement and award by both the arbitra-
tor in Goodfellow and the majority who now follow him, and the
inherent and conceded ambiguity of the latter award. In fact , there-
fore, the sole basis for the award my colleagues make is Goodfellow.
Because this case was tried by all parties on a theory entirely dif-
ferent from that on which the Board's award proceeds, the award is
unrelated to any facts before the Board and, perhaps in consequence,,
is so ambiguous as to raise serious questions concerning its applica-.
,"In a jurisdictional dispute involving these same international unions , an award in
favor of the Carpenters by the same arbitration board as here, containing many of the
same infirmities noted above, for that reason provided no defense to a judgment for
damages under Section 303(a) (4) of the Act against the Carpenters for striking to obtain
the work so awarded. Carpenters v. C J. Montag f Sons, supra. That case is even stronger
than the present one for following the arbitration award, since all parties, including the
employer, had agreed to be bound by the arbitration
MILLWRIGHTS LOCAL UNION NO. 1102 , CARPENTERS 1087
tion and the Board's ability to enforce it. The award contains no rea-
sonably clear definition of the work involved nor of the location of
the line between riggers' and millwrights' work. It gives no indication
of what extent,-method, or circumstances of use of power tools will
entitle riggers to perform the work, nor what constitutes "assembly"
of machinery which is awarded to riggers. The award modifies the
earlier Dunlop Award to give the riggers some additional work, but
the extent and application of the modification are far from clear.32
My colleagues' admonition to the-Millwrights not to be "technical" in
applying the award, apparently made in contemplation of some of the
foregoing uncertainties in the award, is likewise uncertain in purpose,
and effect and adds a further element of opacity to it.
As a result of the Board's disposition of the case on a theory quite
different from that on which it was tried,33 there is no evidence in the
record before us from which one can ascertain the meaning and appli-
cation of the award made. The majority seeks to bring its award
within the theory on which the case was tried, i.e., that the award
should assign all the disputed work to one claimant or the other with-
out dividing it, by asserting that the Millwrights' posthearing con-
cession of a part of the work conformably to Goodfellow causes the
majority's award to dispose of all of the work that remains in dispute.
But this is no more than a restatement in different' words of the' fact
the award here made covers only a portion of the work in dispute at
the time the case was tried, with little indication in the award, in
Goodfellow, or in the record as to what that portion is and where or
how the line should be drawn. The award therefore represents "[t]he
decision of a law suit on a basis different from one on which it was
tried [which] is never very satisfying," Western States Regional
Council No. 3 (Weyerhaeuser Co.), 365 F.2d 934 (C.A.D.C.). Because
the record here is devoid of evidence of any facts relevant to' the
award made by the Board, "there is a serious question of fairness 'of
procedure in relation to a litigant who' has assembled and presented
his evidence and conducted his cross-examination on a theory unlike
the one intruded here for the first time by the Board [long] after the
record closed." Western ,States Regional Council No. 3, supra.
The record before us and the criteria the Board ordinarily uses in
determining jurisdictional disputes require that the disputed work be
awarded to employees represented by the Riggers. The Board's award
32 The majority considers the modification to affect only paragraphs 13(a) and (b) of
the Dunlop Award. However, it would appear that if power equipment is used in assembly,
riggers.might also be entitled to "the handling of component parts of machines by hand"
In paragraph 12(b), and to the use of chainfalls in paragraph 12(c) if power tools are
elsewhere used in the assembly ; further, the "assembly" which is awarded to the riggers
might also include "final tightening" under paragraph 13 (e).
33 Adoption of this new theory appears to stem from a concession of some of the work
made by the Millwrights in their brief after the record was closed, plus the subsequent
issuance of Goodfellow.
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is not and on this record cannot be sufficiently definite to be applied or
enforced; for this reason, and because it maintains the division of
work which has spawned the dispute, it will prolong rather than set-
tle the dispute. In following Goodfellow without regard to the record,
the Board has acceded to the demand that the Board abdicate to the
arbitrator the judicial role which the statute commands it to play in
making jurisdictional awards. From this action I am compelled to
dissent.
Humble Oil & Refining Company and Local 866, International
Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs , Warehousemen and
Helpers of America , Petitioner, and Esso Seamen 's Association,
Intervenor. Case 22-RC-2941. July 6, 1966
DECISION, ORDER, AND DIRECTION
OF SECOND ELECTION
Pursuant to the provisions of a Stipulation for Certification upon
Consent Election, approved July 15, 1965, an election by secret ballot
was conducted at various times and places during the period August 2
to November 19, 1965, under the direction and supervision of the
Regional Director for Region 22, in the unit which was stipulated to
be appropriate, to determine whether or not the employees therein
desired to be represented by the Petitioner or the Intervenor for pur-
poses of collective bargaining. Thereafter, the parties were furnished
with a tally of ballots showing that 698 of approximately 750 eligible
voters cast ballots, of which 201 were for the Petitioner, 463 were for
the Intervenor, 33 were against the participating labor organizations,
and 1 ballot was challenged. The challenged ballot was insufficient to
affect the results of the election. Thereafter, the Petitioner filed timely
objections to conduct affecting the results of the election.
After an investigation, the Regional Director issued his report on
objections on February 9, 1966, in which he recommended that the
objections be overruled in their entirety. Petitioner then filed timely
exceptions to the Regional Director's report and the Employer filed a
brief in support of the report.
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 3(b) of the National Labor
Relations Act, as amended, the National Labor Relations Board has
delegated its powers in connection with this case to a three-member
panel [Members Fanning, Brown, and Zagoria].
Upon the entire record in this case, the Board finds :
1. The Employer is engaged in commerce within the meaning of the
Act and it will effectuate the purposes of the Act to assert jurisdiction
herein.
160 NLRB No. 62.