Local 357, Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board

365 U.S. 667 (1961)

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Local 357, Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board

United States Supreme Court
365 U.S. 667 (1961)

  • Written by Tammy Boggs, JD

Facts

Local 357, Teamsters (the union) (defendant) entered in a three-year agreement with California Trucking Associations, which represented a group of motor-truck operators. The contract provided that casual employees would be dispatched to jobs based on their seniority and irrespective of union membership. Employers retained the right to discharge dispatched employees, with discharge constituting grounds for removing an employee’s seniority status. Employers and casual employees were required to use the union’s hiring-hall procedure, which allowed for the union to dispatch employees for jobs based on seniority. Union member Lester Slater (plaintiff) customarily used the hiring hall. However, at one point, he obtained a job without being dispatched by the union, and after working for a few months, he was discharged by the employer (defendant) for not using the hiring hall. Slater filed unfair-labor-practice charges against the employer and the union. The National Labor Relations Board (the board) ordered the hiring-hall agreement to cease. The court of appeals affirmed the board’s ruling that the hiring-hall agreement was illegal per se. The matter came before the Supreme Court.

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Holding and Reasoning (Douglas, J.)

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