NLRB v. Truck Drivers Local 449

NLRB v. Truck Drivers Local 449
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 17, 22, 1957
Decided April 1, 1957
Full case nameNational Labor Relations Board v. Truck Drivers Local Union No. 449, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helps of America, A.F.L.
Citations353 U.S. 87 (more)
77 S. Ct. 643; 1 L. Ed. 2d 676; 1957 U.S. LEXIS 1629
Case history
PriorTruck Drivers Local 449 v. NLRB, 231 F.2d 110 (2d Cir. 1956); cert. granted, 352 U.S. 818 (1956).
Holding
A temporary lockout to preserve the multi-employer bargaining basis from the disintegration threatened by the union's strike action was lawful under the Taft-Hartley Act
Court membership
Chief Justice
Earl Warren
Associate Justices
Hugo Black · Felix Frankfurter
William O. Douglas · Harold H. Burton
Tom C. Clark · John M. Harlan II
William J. Brennan Jr. · Charles E. Whittaker
Case opinion
MajorityBrennan, joined by Warren, Black, Frankfurter, Douglas, Burton, Clark, Harlan
Whittaker took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
National Labor Relations Act, Taft-Hartley Act

NLRB v. Truck Drivers Local 449 (Buffalo Linen Supply Co.), 353 U.S. 87 (1957), is an 8-0 decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held that a temporary lockout by a multi-employer bargaining group threatened by a whipsaw strike was lawful under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), as amended by the Taft-Hartley Act.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

  1. ^ NLRB v. Truck Drivers Local 449, 353 U.S. 87 (1957). This case is more commonly cited as "Buffalo Linen Supply Co." The National Labor Relations Board titles cases based on the ULP filed against the employer or the union. In this case, the ULP had been filed against the employer, Buffalo Linen Supply Co. However, complainant Truck Drivers Local 449 appealed the case to the courts. The courts refer to this case as "Buffalo Linen" in order to keep the reference to the original NLRB decision.
  2. ^ "Multi-Employer Lockout Found Lawful Response to Whipsaw Strike," Columbia Law Review, December 1957.
  3. ^ Atleson, Values and Assumptions in American Labor Law, 1984.
  4. ^ Getman, Pogrebin, and Gregory, Labor Management Relations and the Law, 1999.
  5. ^ Gorman and Finkin, Basic Text on Labor Law: Unionization and Collective Bargaining, 2004.
  6. ^ Lambert, "If the Workers Took A Notion": The Right to Strike and American Political Development, 2005.