(DOWNLOAD) "United Steelworkers America v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co." by Supreme Court of the United States ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: United Steelworkers America v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co.
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 20, 1960
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 84 KB
Description
Respondent transports steel and steel products by barge and maintains a terminal at Chickasaw, Alabama, where it performs maintenance and repair work on its barges. The employees at that terminal constitute a bargaining unit covered by a collective bargaining agreement negotiated by petitioner union. Respondent between 1956 and 1958 laid off some employees, reducing the bargaining unit from 42 to 23 men. This reduction was due in part to respondent contracting maintenance work, previously done by its employees, to other companies. The latter used respondents supervisors to lay out the work and hired some of the laid-off employees of respondent (at reduced wages). Some were in fact assigned to work on respondents barges. A number of employees signed a grievance which petitioner presented to respondent, the grievance reading: