Poloron Products, Inc. And Federal Labor Union, Local 22806, A. F. Or L. And Jug Makers Guild Of Westchester County, Party To The Contract, 1358 (1945)

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Poloron Products, Inc. And Federal Labor Union, Local 22806, A. F. Or L. And Jug Makers Guild Of Westchester County, Party To The Contract, 1358 (1945)

In the Matter of POLORON PRODUCTS, INC. and FEDERAL LABOR UNION,

LOCAL 22806, A. F. or L. and JUG MAKERS GUILD OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY, PARTY TO THE CONTRACT Case No. --C-5428.-Decided December 12, 1945 Mr. David H. Werther, for the Board.

Mr. Herbert Kaufman, of New York City, for the respondent.

Mr. Samuel Sanderman, of New York City, for the Union.

Mr. Thomas A. Ricci, of counsel to the Board.

DECISION AND ORDER STATEMENT OF THE CASE Upon a second amended charge 1 duly filed on October 23, 1944,.

by Federal Labor Union, Local 22806, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, herein called the Union, the National Labor Relations Board, herein called the Board, by the Regional Director for the Second Region (New York City), issued its complaint, dated November 4, 1944, against Poloron Products, Inc., New Rochelle,

New York, herein called the respondent, alleging that the respondent had engaged in and was engaging in unfair labor practices within the meaning of Section 8 (1), (2), and (4), and Section 2 (6) and (7) of the National Labor Relations Act, 49 Stat. 449, herein called the Act. Copies of the complaint and notice of hearing thereon were duly served upon the respondent, the Union, and Jug Makers Guild of Westchester County, herein called the Guild, a labor organization alleged in the complaint to have been formed and dominated by ther respondent.

With respect to the unfair labor practices, the complaint alleged in substance: (1) that the respondent initiated, sponsored, and promoted the formation of the Guild and thereafter assisted, dominated,.

and interfered with its administration; (2) that, on or about February 9, 1944, the respondent discharged or laid off Ben Peracchio I The original charge was filed on February 18, 1944, and the first amended charge on.

April 17, 1944.

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and thereafter refused to employ him because he filed, or caused to.

be filed, charges against the respondent under the Act, and because he engaged in concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection; and (3) that, by the foregoing acts, and by urging and warning its employees to join the Guild, by advising and threatening its employees not to join the Union, by interrogating them about their union membership, by disparaging the Union, by entering ihto a closed-shop contract with the Guild, although the Guild did not then represent an uncoerced majority of the employees within the bargaining unit covered by the agreement and was not the representative of the employees, within the meaning of the Act, and by other acts, ...

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