International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 1805 v. Mayo

Changes made by Henry C. Mayo, an Inspection Supervisor at a plant of Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Anne Arundel County, on the weekly time card of an employee under his supervision, constituted the first of a series of events which resulted in this appeal.

It is something of an anomaly that the merits of the original dispute — whether the supervisor’s action was right or wrong — have no bearing on the issues in this case. It is necessary, however, that we set out the facts as they occurred, in order to understand, in their proper perspective, the issues which later developed.

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