PORTER CO. v. NLRB

No. 230.

397 U.S. 99 (1970)

H. K. PORTER CO., INC., DISSTON DIVISION-DANVILLE WORKS v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 2, 1970


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald C. Winson argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief were Paul R. Obert, Thomas P. Luscher, and William Alvah Stewart.

Norton J. Come argued the cause for respondent National Labor Relations Board. With him on the brief were Solicitor General Griswold, Joseph J. Connolly, Arnold Ordman, and Dominick L. Manoli. George H. Cohen argued the cause for respondent United Steel-workers of America, AFL-CIO. With him on the brief were Elliot Bredhoff, Michael H. Gottesman, and Bernard Kleiman.

Lawrence M. Cohen argued the cause for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States as amicus curiae urging reversal. With him on the briefs was Milton A. Smith.

J. Albert Woll, Laurence Gold, and Thomas E. Harris filed a brief for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization as amicus curiae urging affirmance.


MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

After an election respondent United Steelworkers Union was, on October 5, 1961, certified by the National Labor Relations Board as the bargaining agent for certain employees at the Danville, Virginia, plant of the petitioner, H. K. Porter Co. Thereafter negotiations commenced for a collective-bargaining agreement. Since that time the controversy has seesawed between the Board, the Court of Appeals for the District...

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