Emporium Capwell Co. v. Western Addition Community Organization

*52Opinion of the Court by

Mr. Justice Marshall, announced by Mr. Chief Justice Burger.

This litigation presents the question whether, in light of the national policy against racial discrimination in employment, the National Labor Relations Act protects concerted activity by a group of minority employees to bargain with their employer over issues of employment discrimination. The National Labor Relations Board held that the employees could not circumvent their elected representative to engage in such bargaining. The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed and remanded,…