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- Title: Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. v. National Labor Relations Board
- Author : First Circuit United States Court Of Appeals
- Release Date : January 17, 1964
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 73 KB
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WOODBURY, Ch. J.: On petition of Insurance Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, the National Labor Relations Board in a proceeding under § 9(c) of the Act, 29 U.S.C. § 159(c), certified the Union as the bargaining representative of all debit insurance agents, including all canvassing regular and office account agents, at Metropolitan Life Insurance Companys district office in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The Company deliberately refused to bargain collectively with the Union in order to challenge the appropriateness of the employee unit certified by the Board. See American Federation of Labor v. NLRB, 308 U.S. 401, 411 (1940); Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. v. NLRB, 313 U.S. 146, 154 (1941). The Company agrees with the Boards classifications of employees included and excluded. That is to say, the Company does not contend that the unit certified by the Board contains ineligible employees or employees whose interests are antagonistic. Its contention is that an employee unit consisting of the debit insurance agents working out of only its one Woonsocket district office is inappropriate. Its position is that the only appropriate unit would encompass either (1) all of its offices in the United States, or (2) all of its offices in its New England Territory (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island), or (3) all of its offices in Rhode Island. Furthermore, it says that in determining that the debit insurance agents at only one of its eight district offices in Rhode Island constituted an appropriate unit for collective bargaining, the Board treated as controlling the extent to which the Union had so far organized its employees in Rhode Island in clear violation of § 9(c)(5) added to the National Labor Relations Act by the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, 61 Stat. 144 (1947, 61 Stat. 144 (1947), 29 U.S.C. § 159(c)(5), quoted in its pertinent context in the margin.