National Labor Relations Board v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen & Helpers of America

MEDINA, Circuit Judge.

In order to shield “unoffending employers and others from pressures in controversies not their own”, N. L. R. B. v. Denver Building & Construction Trades Council, 1951, 341 U.S. 675, 692, 71 S.Ct. 943, 953, 95 L.Ed. 1284, the Taft-Hartley Act makes it an unfair labor practice for a union to engage in a secondary boycott. In the language of the statute, Section 8(b)(4) (A) and (B), 29 U.S.C.A. § 158(b)(4) (A) and (B), it is such an unfair labor practice for a labor organization “to induce or encourage the employees of any employer to engage in * * * a concerted refusal in…