National Labor Relations Board v. Local Union No. 725 of the United Ass'n of Journeymen & Apprentices of the Plumbing & Pipefitting Industry

RONEY, Circuit Judge:

This ease raises the question of whether we should enforce a National Labor Relations Board order to remedy an “unfair labor practice” by a union when the fault of the union lay in its refusal to refer an employee union member to a job of foreman, a supervisory job outside of the scope of the National Labor Relations Act, and whether a remedy of backpay can be based on the loss of a supervisor’s pay. Resolving these legal issues against the union, and finding substantial evidence on the record as a whole to support the factual finding that the refusal to refer was a…