Pio v. Ross B. Hammond Co.

Defendant, a general construction contractor, is a party to a master labor agreement negotiated between councils of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America and several associations of general contractors in Oregon and Southwest Washington. The master agreement contains a clause governing the subcontracting of work covered by the agreement to subcontractors who are not themselves signatories to the agreement. It provides that a general contractor either must require such a subcontractor to bind himself to the terms of the master agreement or the contractor must assume…