Nelson v. General Electric Company

QUINN, Associate Judge.

Appellant is president of Local 506 of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, located at Erie, Pennsylvania. This union is the certified bargaining representative for appellee’s employees working in its Erie plant. On December 9, 1953, appellee adopted a “policy” which declared in part that any of its employees who invoked the Fifth Amendment before a congressional committee and refused to testify concerning various communist activities would be subject to suspension and discharge. Appellant, an employee of appellee at that time, invoked the Fifth…