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- Title: Laclede Gas Co. v. National Labor Relations Board
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- Release Date : January 04, 1970
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 75 KB
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HEANEY, C. J.: The National Labor Relations Board, in a decision and order reported at 173 N.L.R.B. 243, 173 NLRB No. 35, 69 LRRM 1316 (1968), found that Laclede Gas Company's failure to bargain with the Union regarding deviation from existing seniority practices in reducing its work force constituted an unfair labor practice under § 8(a)(5) of the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 158 (1965). Laclede was ordered to cease and desist from such violation and to make whole the employees improperly laid off. Laclede has applied to this Court for review of that order, and the Board, by cross-application, has requested enforcement of the order. We hold that the reduction in work force was a lockout rather than a layoff, and that Laclede was not obligated to bargain with respect to it. We refuse to enforce this order of the Board, but we remand the matter to the Board to permit it to determine whether the lockout was violative of § 8 (a)(1) and (3) of the Act.