Local Union No. 715, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Afl-Cio v. National Labor Relations Board

TAMM, Circuit Judge:

In Associated Press v. NLRB, 160 U. S.App.D.C.-, 492 F.2d 662 (1974), we endorsed the Labor Board’s Spielberg doctrine. The latter decision established the principle that the Board may, in appropriate cases, decline to entertain an unfair labor practice complaint arising from a dispute which has already been arbitrated. Spielberg Manufacturing Co., 112 NLRB 1080, 1082 (1955). The petition now before us requests that an order of the Board purporting to apply the Spielberg doctrine be set aside. The petition is granted in part and denied in part.

The petitioner herein, Local…