LOCAL 1104, COMM'N WKRS. OF AMERICA, AFL-CIO v. N. L. R. B

Nos. 446, 1034, Dockets 74-2044, 74-2230.

520 F.2d 411 (1975)

LOCAL 1104, COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA, AFL-CIO, and Local 1101, Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO, Petitioners, v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Respondent, and New York Telephone Company and Wellington G. Rigby, Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 21, 1975.

Certiorari Denied January 12, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Howard Ostrin, New York City (Cohn, Glickstein, Lurie, Ostrin & Lubell, New York City), and Kane & Koons, Washington, D. C., of counsel, for petitioners.

Frederick D. Braid, Mineola, N. Y. (Rains, Pogrebin & Scher, Bertrand B. Pogrebin, Mineola, N. Y., of counsel), for intervenor Rigby.

Bernard Yaker, New York City, George E. Ashley and William P. Witman, New York City, of counsel, for intervenor New York Telephone Co.

Robert A. Giannasi, Asst. Gen. Counsel, N. L. R. B., Washington, D. C. (Peter G. Nash, Gen. Counsel, John S. Irving, Deputy Gen. Counsel, Patrick Hardin, Associate Gen. Counsel, Elliott Moore, Deputy Associate Gen. Counsel and Frank C. Morris, Jr., Atty., N. L. R. B., of counsel), for respondent.

Before SMITH, ANDERSON and OAKES, Circuit Judges.


Certiorari Denied January 12, 1976. See 96 S.Ct. 778.

J. JOSEPH SMITH, Circuit Judge:

This case presents a novel problem of accommodating a union's legitimate interests of self-preservation with employees' valid but conflicting claims to freedom from compulsory unionism. While our attempt to strike the proper balance must be guided by the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 151 et seq., the case does not fall neatly under any of its specific...

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