Legal Opinion
The Four Plating Co., Inc. v. Mako
New Jersey Court of Chancery
Decided September 13, 1937PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
This is a labor case.
Complainant is engaged in the business of plating and polishing metals. In its polishing department have been employed twenty-five to thirty men, all of whom, prior to January, 1937, were members of the defendant Local 44 of the Metal Polishers' Union. They have been paid on a piecework basis with no fixed work hours. Sometimes the men worked as long as seventy-six hours a week — though I suppose this was exceptional.
Early in the year, complainant and the union started to negotiate a contract. The union asked among other terms, a forty-hour week, minimum wages of…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Berry v. DonovanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
- Bayonne Textile Corp. v. American Federation of Silk WorkersSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1934
- Folsom v. LewisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1911
- Jersey City Printing Co. v. CassidyNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1902
- Mayer v. Journeymen Stonecutters' Ass'nNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1890
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Christiansen v. Local 680, Milk Drivers, C.New Jersey Court of Chancery · 1940
- Carroll v. L. No. 269New Jersey Court of Chancery · 1943
- Wilson v. Newspaper, C., UnionNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1938
- Canter, C. v. Retail Furniture, C., No. 109New Jersey Court of Chancery · 1937
- F.F. East Co. v. United Oystermen's, C., 19600New Jersey Court of Chancery · 1940