National Labor Relations Board v. The Halsey W. Taylor Company

Several months after an unsuccessful attempt at union organization at respondent’s Warren, Ohio, plant, one of its employees was fired. This man had been a member of the Steelworkers’ Organizing Committee which had lost a representation election the preceding fall.

Respondent claimed that the discharge was occasioned by “insubordination.” The NLRB found that the discharge resulted from the employee “engaging in concerted activity for mutual aid and protection”; that such activity was protected under the National Labor Relations Act and ordered reinstatement and backpay.

The facts as found by…