Haber & Fink, Inc. v. Jones

Van Voorhis J.

On September 30, 1949, an election among plaintiff’s twenty-one employees was held under the New York State Labor Relations Act (Labor Law, §§ 700-716). Twenty votes were cast, two of which were in favor of defendant union as collective bargaining representative, and eighteen were for no union. These employees were not strangers to defendant, which had acted as their collective bargaining representative for over two years before they voted against it. Defendant had opposed the holding of an election, having called out 200 pickets (none of whom were employed by plaintiff) in a…